France and Great Britain were plunged into deep sadness on July 16, 2023. Date on which Jane Birkin left this world at the age of 76. More than five months after this disappearance, his daughters
Lou Doillon
And
Charlotte Gainsbourg
must now live with the grief and absence of their mother. Our colleagues from Gala were able to meet the two sisters last December to take stock of “after Jane Birkin”.
At the Montparnasse cemetery, where Jane Birkin a few centimeters from his daughter Kate Berry, who died more than ten years ago, Lou and Charlotte often come to meditate, as our colleagues point out, who took the opportunity to question them about their new daily lives and the memories left by their mother. And memories, there would be lots of them. Both material and psychological. Indeed, during his lifetime, Jane Birkin kept everything. Whether they are objects that belonged to his daughter Kate Barry, or to his mother.
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Jane Birkin kept everything
An almost family “trouble” when we know that Serge Gainsbourg’s house has not changed in the space of three decades. Where not a single chair has been moved. That unfiltered gypsies are crushed in the living room ashtray. Or that opened chocolate bars are always kept in the fridge. This also allowed Charlotte to open his father’s home to the public in September 2023 and give fans the impression of strolling through the current living room, current bedroom, or current bathroom of the artist who died on March 2, 1991.
A real museum that she could also open for her mother’s home as the latter “kept everything” during her life. As our colleagues at Galathe artist who died last July has never been able to separate himself from the memories of those who died. She would also have warned her daughters. “It’s going to be shit for you when I die, because I’m leaving all my shit to you. Not just my mess but my mother’s and all of Kate’s boxes”, she would have told them. It remains to be seen whether Charlotte and Lou will do like their mother, and keep all of her memories until their own disappearance.
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