Edith Piaf's love letters released in full

she called Toto and "my blue love" and for whom she promised to give up drink forever.

She pWritten in 1951 and 1952, the passionate letters shed light on Piaf's little-known relationship with Gérardin, whom enned them two years after the death of boxer Marcel Cerdan, widely thought of as "the true love of Piaf's life". When he died in a plane crash, she sung Hymn to Love, thought to be her way of saying she would never get over him.

But in one of the first letters to Gérardin, dated January 1952, she writes: "My blue love, our first separation ... darling, I think I can say that never has a man taken me as much, and I believe I'm making love for the first time."

"I was running towards catastrophe; you fished me out just in time," writes the singer of "Non, je ne regrette rien".

The 13-time French speed racing champion once said that: "Forty-eight hours with Piaf are more tiring than a lap in the Tour de France". 

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