Édith Piaf's tomb sits in Père Lachaise, the vast cemetery on Paris's eastern edge that, since 1804, has drawn in the famous, the foreign and the simply determined to be remembered.

Piaf herself had plenty to be remembered for. Born Édith Gassion, she was abandoned by her mother, raised by her grandmother in a brothel and went blind from malnutrition as a small child. The prostitutes nursed her back to health.

In her teens, she sang for coins on the streets of Belleville before a cabaret owner gave her a stage and a nickname: "piaf," the French word for a sparrow, the small brown bird nobody notices until it sings.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours through Père Lachaise trace Piaf's extraordinary arc from the pavements of Belleville to international stardom, placing her tomb alongside those of Modigliani, Oscar Wilde and Yves Montand, who credited Piaf with launching his own career.