A last tribute for Jane Birkin. The singer and actress, who died on July 16, was buried on Monday July 24 in Paris. The funeral took place at the Saint-Roch church. Part of the ceremony was celebrated in English, given Jane Birkin’s British origins. A ceremony in the intimacy therefore, but near the church, a giant screen was installed and around a thousand people followed the ceremony, for a last farewell.
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Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, Jane Birkin’s two daughters carried their mother’s coffin as they entered the church. Many celebrities were also present: Etienne Daho, Carole Bouquet, Catherine Deneuve, Yvan Attal, Chiara Mastroianni or even Isabelle Hupper. Brigitte Macron and the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, also took their places in the church, whose square was covered with flowers, testifying to the national turmoil aroused by the disappearance of the singer and actress, the July 16 at 76 years old.
“ I can already see the void she leaves us. She’s my mom, our mom, your mom “, read Charlotte Gainsbourg, very moved. Lou Doillon remembered many moments shared with her mother and all her family, all testifying to the eccentricity, audacity and humor of the favorite Englishwoman of the French. She concluded: Mom, […] Thank you for not being ordinary, reasonable and docile. This world of tomorrow, very peaceful and reasoned, it already annoys me “.
The ceremony was celebrated according to the Anglican rite and punctuated by poignant tributes, including that of the doctor who followed her during her leukemia. The coffin was then carried to the sound of “La Javanaise”, to the applause of the public.
Jane Birkin, 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 at the end of the 1960s.
Tribute from the public
” Without her, we lack the light, I adored this committed woman artist, capable of empathy for essential causes “, commented Jean-Baptiste, who came from Burgundy with a sign indicating” Thank you Jane Birkin ” And ” Jane Forever “. More than 1,500 anonymous people were gathered near the church in front of a large screen. Access to the church was reserved for the entourage.
” We have come to pay tribute to the one who supported us from the start by cutting a lock of hair after the murder of Mahsa Amini in Iran, said Mahasti, in her fifties, also carrying a sign: Thank you Jane, Iranian women will not forget you “.
” She is one of the stars that transmit freedom “Commented Serge Quin, 60 years old. ” His smile is an era and a generation that offered us this spontaneity added Bouchra, 50.
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Freedom icon
“ My Jane, thanks to your talent, your elegant free beauty, your sharp, macabre and British humor, you accompanied our gloomy adolescence. We wanted to be you, or Serge “, had written in his tribute Etienne Daho, singer who became a relative, collaborator on the last album of the singer Oh ! Sorry you were sleeping…
” Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon. “, also greeted President Macron on Twitter.
Since the artist was discovered lifeless at her Parisian home, fans flock, sometimes with a bouquet of flowers, to 5 bis rue Verneuil in Paris. Place where she resided with Serge Gainsbourg, when the couple embodied the alliance of chic and shock, accompanied by a scent of scandal.
Flowers were also hung on the fence around the house the actress owned in Brittany. A ceremony also took place this Monday at the same time in Lanillis in Finistère, where she liked to recharge her batteries.
The disappearance of the singer of Di Doo Dah » and « Chic underwear “, died of natural causes according to those around him, occurred when Jane Birkin was planning to go back on stage.
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(And with AFP)