Où était mauvause génie...

Edith Piaf had more lovers than the film could detail!

And this, too...

"The teenage Edith kept louche company in Pigalle, where she now settled — if, indeed, “settled” can be said to be the right word. There she took up with Simone Berteaut, 'Momone': a wayward 14-year-old girl whom Edith dubbed 'ma mauvause génie,' 'my evil spirit.' Over the decades Momone would be banished by countless men who tried to reform Piaf, only to be called back by the singer whenever she once again found herself alone. And almost inevitably the teenage Edith got mixed up with le milieu, the mafia that ran much of Paris’ club and cabaret scene. During these years she usually had one or another “protector,” some thug who made sure she was always incriminated in his felonies and helped himself to her meager wages. As Burke points out, 'her life with her father had predisposed her to having a boss who took her earnings and dictated her behavior.'” 

~ http://www.salon.com/2011/03/29/no_regrets_carolyn_burke/