Death of Jane Birkin: the most French of English women

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France 3 – M. Collet, L. Piquet, L. Dulois, S. Lacombe

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Died this Sunday, July 16, the Franco-British singer will have marked the French, in particular by her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg.

By his youthful voice and his accent so british so pronounced, Jane Birkin had become something of an icon in French pop culture. She is bornorn in 1946 in a bourgeois family in London, from an officer father in the Royal Navy and an actress mother. She will follow in the footsteps of the latter, investing cinemas, making an appearance in the film Blow Up in 1966. If she also tried her hand at theater ct is indeed in the song that Jane Birkin will become the most famous.

An iconic couple

With Serge Gainsbourg, she will form a duet but especially a couple remained in all memories. They do not hesitate to transgress taboos and morality, with such daring titles asJe you don’t love me either” Or “69 years erotic”. She will have a daughter with the interpreter of “I am come to tell you that I’m leaving”, Charlotte Gainsbourg. Caring mother of two other daughters, Lou doillon and Kate Berry, she had the pain of losing the latter in 2013. A drama that she overcame, thanks to music.


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