Louis Leplée
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Louis Leplée, died in Paris 6 April 1936, was a night club owner who discovered the French singer Édith Piaf singing on a Paris street corner in 1935. Leplée starred Piaf at the popular Parisian nightspot "Le Gerny" as "La Môme Piaf" (The Little Sparrow).
He was murdered in his apartment, and Piaf was watched by the police as a suspect, but later cleared.
He is portrayed by Gérard Depardieu in the 2007 film La Môme also known as La Vie en Rose.
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