Oh, I don't know...Moulin Rouge wasn't THAT bad. There were things that might be seen as risque, but they had "standard" cabaret stuff that too, and featured famous jazz performers, the Cotton Club Parade visited in 1937 for instance, and Piaf performed with Yves Montand in 1944.

But I see what you mean. Still, she also did on-stage shows for the allied forces....could include the 501st. *G*

Just a thought, but, well...Piaf is about as iconically French as it gets. I would have suggested Brel, or Django Reinhardt, but Brel would be all of 17 and his career as a singer is another 7 years away, not to mention he's in Brussels, in his second-to-last year at Institut Saint-Louis, and Reinhardt would be touring the US with Duke Ellington.

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