The story of Mireille Mathieu is often equated with a fairy tale. Mireille Mathieu was born on July 22, 1946 in the Provencal city of Avignon. She was the eldest daughter in a family of 14 other children. Mother (Marcel) and father (Roger) raised children in a small wooden house. Roger the bricklayer worked for his father, the head of a modest company. […]