Bad news for Charlotte Gainsbourg. The daughter of the famous singer Serge Gainsbourg is the current owner of the Serge Gainsbourg museum located in Paris. An exceptional place, nestled at the famous 5 bis rue Verneuil (in the seventh arrondissement), – where the French legend lived between 1969 and 1991 – which should soon open its doors to the public.
However, according to recent information revealed by our colleagues from Sunday newspaper, in their edition of December 5, 2021, the current building is subject to numerous works before its opening – scheduled for 2022 -. Renovations estimated at more than two million euros. A staggering sum explained by the extent of the work carried out in the singer’s former house, but also in an annex space (with an area of 300 square meters), located a hundred meters away. Fortunately, the Île-de-France region recently labeled Maison Gainsbourg as “heritage of regional interest“. A godsend for the wife of director Yvan Attal who, thanks to this, will be able to benefit from a subsidy of 600,000 euros.
A death still difficult to overcome
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of her father’s death, Charlotte Gainsbourg was the guest of the show Boomerang on France Inter last March. The opportunity for Jane Birkin’s daughter to speak out about her complicated mourning. “In France, it is an obligation to be confronted with the ghost of my father“, she had explained. Before continuing, pained:”For years I couldn’t listen to his voice, I armored myself. Even today, sometimes I don’t have the shoulders, it’s complicated, even after 30 years. “
As a reminder, Serge Gainsbourg passed away on March 2, 1991 following a heart attack at his home. He was buried on the following March 7, in the Montparnasse cemetery, in the fourteenth arrondissement of Paris.