2023-07-24 06:09:00
The ceremony will take place this Monday morning in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Only relatives will have access to the church, but a giant screen will allow the general public to be included.
Stars and anonymous will say a last farewell to Jane Birkin, “ex-fan of the sixties” as she sang, on the occasion of the funeral of the favorite Englishwoman of the French, this Monday in the Saint-Roch church in Paris.
The ceremony is to be held from 10 a.m. If access to this church located in the 1st arrondissement will be restricted to relatives, a broadcast will allow the public to gather from the outside.
“Associating the general public” with an intimate ceremony
It is a source close to the family who announced on Friday to AFP that access to the church would be “reserved for family and friends”.
In front of the national turmoil at the announcement of the death of the singer and actress, last Sunday at the age of 76, measures have been taken to include despite everything her admirers at the funeral.
“The ceremony will be broadcast live on a giant screen at the corner of rue Saint-Honoré and rue des Pyramides” to “associate the general public with it”, his relatives told AFP.
This Londoner, naturalized French but remained English in the collective unconscious with her delicious accent mistakes, had been part of the landscape for more than half a century and her meeting with Serge Gainsbourg on the set of a film in the late 1960s.
“My Jane, Thanks to your talent, your elegant free beauty, your pungent, macabre and British humor, you accompanied our gloomy adolescence. We wanted to be you, or Serge”, wrote in his tribute Étienne Daho, singer who became a close friend, collaborator on the singer’s latest album Oh! Sorry you were sleeping…
“Icon”
“Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon”, also greeted President Emmanuel Macron on Twitter.
Celebrities and political figures are not the only ones to have been affected by his death. Since the artist was discovered lifeless at her Parisian home by her life assistant, anonymous fans have flocked, sometimes with a bouquet of flowers in hand, to 5 bis rue Verneuil (7th arrondissement of Paris). Place where she resided with Serge Gainsbourg, when the couple embodied the alliance of chic and shock, escorted by the scent of scandal of their duet Je t’aime… moi non plus.
The legendary Parisian home, which remained Gainsbourg’s lair after the departure of Jane Birkin in the early 1980s, tired of her excesses, is due to open its doors to the public on September 20, as well as a museum dedicated to the singer-musician located on the sidewalk opposite. Flowers were also hung on the picket fence around the house the Pool actress owned in Brittany.
“We will miss you terribly”
The funeral of the interpreter of Fuir le bonheur lest he run away will also have an international echo. “My dearest Jane is gone”, had thus posted on social networks Marianne Faithfull, another English artist, revealed by the Swinging London of the 60s and who had subsequently settled in Paris (before returning to the United Kingdom).
“Jane Birkin was a beautiful and unique woman”, reacted Iggy Pop, figure of American rock, with whom she had shared a duet on television across the Atlantic in 2020.
The disappearance of the singer Dessous chic, who died of natural causes according to those around her, occurred when Jane Birkin was planning to go back on stage after multiple health problems (leukemia, stroke).
“A few days ago, you told me you wanted to go back on stage and go back on the road. Repeat this Olympia that you had to postpone. Confident in the future”, reported Étienne Daho. “For a few days, she had been walking again, was motivated to reschedule her Olympia and had decided to regain her independence. This first evening alone will have been the last”, can we also read from the pen of her two daughters, Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Serge) and Lou Doillon (daughter of director Jacques Doillon).
“You will find your parents, Kate (daughter born of the union with the British composer John Barry, died defenestrated in 2013), Serge, your friends and your dogs. And we will miss you terribly”, concluded Étienne Daho.
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