Discover the story of the song > La Foule – Édith Piaf

- "La Foule" is a famous song performed by Edith Piaf in 1957.
- The lyrics are by Michel Rivgauche and the music by Ángel Cabral.
- It is an adaptation of "Que nadie sepa mi sufrir", a Peruvian waltz of Argentine origin composed in 1936 by Angel Cabral with lyrics by Enrique Dizeo.
- After the success of the French adaptation, the original version was revived under the Spanish title "Amor de mis amores".
- The song has been covered by many artists, in French and Spanish, as well as in other languages.
- The song tells the story of a young woman who gets lost in a popular party. The crowd is so dense that the people there have little control over their movements.
- Through the movement of the crowd, the young woman finds herself in the arms of a stranger.
- Both helpless, they let themselves be carried away by the magic of the moment, dancing to the rhythm of the crowd.
- Something happens, perhaps the beginning of a new love, destroyed a few moments later by another movement of crowd which separates those who had just met.
- In spite of all his efforts, the crowd moves him away from the stranger which it had offered to him and which it carries away at once.