“We couldn’t”, Jacky, friend of Serge Gainsbourg, returns to his “very manic” side

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La Maison Gainsbourg, the legendary 5 bis, rue de Verneuil in Paris, opened its doors on Wednesday September 20, 2023. And Jacques Jakubowicz, known as Jacky, close friend of the former owner of the place, Serge Gainsbourg, has already visited it. This November 7, 2023, on Sud Radio, the host assured: “I went back into the house, I was very moved.”

“Oh no we couldn’t move an object in his house”

On site, he found the house as it was when it was still inhabited by the singer of “I came to tell you that I’m leaving”. Jacky specifies in fact: “Serge was very manic, not interested in touching anything. So even though he is missing I think that Charlotte (Gainsbourg, his daughter, editor’s note) really preserved all that.”

And to give as an example: “If an ashtray was there and you put it there, he would put it back right away. Oh no we couldn’t move an object in his house. Oh no no it’s forbidden”. A rather rigid attitude which is no secret for fans of Serge Gainsbourg. Indeed, many years ago, Jane Birkin, who shared his life and lived on rue de Verneuil with him and his daughters, Kate and Charlotte, had told how she had to hide even her bottles of shampoo in the bathroom. bathroom, so as not to ruin the decor.

“It’s like visiting Tutankhamun’s tomb“

In January 2022, a few months before her death, Jane Birkin explained on France Inter about this project set up by his daughter: “I think people will be surprised.” And to specify: “Surprised too, by his eye, by the fact that he was such an esthete. You couldn’t touch anything in this house… At all. It was already a museum. But it looked like him! And that’s “a delicacy, of such beauty, all in the dark… It’s like visiting the tomb of Tutankhamun. Nothing has changed. It’s a bit like Sleeping Beauty: you enter after 30 years. It’s really very strange.”

F.A.


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