Edith Piaf | Hymne a l'amour | 1950

Hymne à l'amour is a song by Edith Piaf released in 1950, with lyrics written by Edith Piaf and music by Marguerite Monnot.
Having become a classic of French song, it is one of Edith Piaf's greatest hits.
Edith Piaf writes Hymne à l'amour thinking of the man she loves, the boxer Marcel Cerdan, whom she met in 1948 in New York, where she was on tour. At the beginning of 1949, the couple bought a house in Boulogne-Billancourt: it was in this interior that she wrote what was to become one of her greatest successes.
Edith Piaf sang this song for the first time on September 14, 1949 at the "Versailles", a cabaret in New York. On October 28, 1949, Marcel Cerdan died in the crash of Air France flight 009, and she symbolically went up the same evening to pay homage to him by singing this song.
She will finally record it before May 2, 1950 with Robert Chauvigny's orchestra.