Books: The Knowing Virgin
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Before she died, she had built one of France's finest and largest (80,000) collections of old songs. She had also compiled debts so disastrous that she was forced back to the coarse ditties of the cabaret, appearing on the same bills with cowboys and acrobats. Writing later of the lack of discernment of the Paris public, she concluded bitterly: "I've been deceived, deceived!" Her hair was white, and she no longer bothered to henna it. But when she died in 1944 at 79, Yvette was still singing and still convinced that the blushing monkey was on her back.
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