Charles Dumont, who wrote the music for Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, the soaring song about sweeping away the past to find love anew that the hallowed but troubled singer Édith Piaf turned into an ...

"Non, rien de rien. Non, je ne regrette rien..." Forty-three years later, Dumont, now a handsome, jovial 74 years old, remembers that moment well. It was the instant that changed his life.