2003-11-09

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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | The love of a poet

Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau died on the same day. Cocteau, chivalrous at the last, obeyed the rule of ladies first. 'Ah, la Piaf est morte,' he said on the morning of October 11 1963. 'Je peux mourir aussi.' [Ah, Piaf's dead. I can die too.'] And then he promptly died of a heart attack. Or so legend has it.