Marcel Cerdan, a middleweight world champion who had a romance with the French singer, was killed in a plane crash in 1949.
PARIS — Celine Dion’s Brobdingnagian return to public singing last Friday night tethered itself to sports because it happened at anat the Eiffel Tower, but to many an ear it might have stirred another attachment. It might have revived a boxer who died 75 years beforehand and lived to be only 33.
Along its way and in its early days, just after the tragedy of Oct. 28, 1949, the song picked up a sporting distinction: Piaf dedicated it to Cerdan.“Marcel Cerdan is an emblematic figure of French sport,” Merckel wrote in his email, soon adding, “His romantic relationship with Edith Piaf added to his legend. Both coming from very modest backgrounds, they were adored by the French and this also contributed to his legend.
A rematch seemed logical and then proximate, set for early December. On Oct. 27, 1949, at just after 8 p.m., Cerdan left Orly Airport in Paris toward New York aboard Air France flight 009, a Lockheed Constellation, an airplane model that nowadays retains some throwback stylishness. Numerous accounts indicate he would prepare for the fight and reunite with Piaf, who had begun to gather popularity in New York.
Piaf spiraled into a chasm of despair, but took the stage legendarily in New York on the night of Oct. 28 to sing “Hymne L’Amour” to Cerdan, with some accounts telling that she crumpled to the floor thereafter.
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