"The evening began in triumph, with Gigi's concert at the Olympia, the
oldest and most famed music hall in France, where her heroine Edith
Piaf had so often performed. The only disappointment was that Gigi’s
somewhat sickly lover Etienne, had skipped the concert because of a
severe flu and remained at the family’s country home. As Gigi performed
to a sold out and wildly enthusiastic crowd how could she have known
that Etienne had dragged himself out of his sickbed at the last minute
and raced to meet her. Happily exhausted at the end of the night,
standing in her dressing room, surrounded by
admirers, autograph seekers and bouquets of flowers how could she have
known that Etienne, behind the wheel in a pouring rain. had lost
control of the car on a hairpin turn, shot through a barrier, flew off
the side of the road and crashed fatally on the rocks below."
-Noir et Blanc Magazine, May 1964
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