2023-07-24 17:00:07
A person holds a portrait of Jane Birkin as the bearers of the artist’s coffin come out of the Saint-Roch church, July 24, 2023. THOMAS PADILLA / AP
A thousand people, for some flowers in hand, gathered, Monday, July 24 in the morning, rue des Pyramides, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, in front of the big screen where a portrait of Jane Birkin is displayed, hair in the wind, her face illuminated by her eternal smile. The funeral of the actress, singer and director, who died on Sunday July 16 at the age of 76, took place at the Saint-Roch church, fifty meters away, rue Saint-Honoré, but the area was cordoned off by the police, and barriers were erected to channel the crowd. Only people from “the family and friendly environment” were allowed to attend the ceremony.
Read the obituary: Jane Birkin, singer and actress, died at the age of 76
Before the broadcast on the screen, anonymous people wait to the familiar sound of Birkin’s songs, which have been looping on the radios and social networks since his disappearance. Tubes signed Gainsbourg – And even though, In the doo already – but also a song with a very personal tone from his latest album, produced by Etienne Daho and Jean-Louis Piérot, Forbidden Games.
Marie-Alix came with her bulldog “not quite the same as Jane’s, but I chose it with her in mind”specifies this 40-year-old woman who says to herself “attached to personality” of the singer since she was a child. “For me, she embodies the free French woman, even if she was born English. I loved his lifestyle, his couple, hypermodern for the time, with Gainsbourg. His songs accompanied my life, The Slushwhen small, I played in the puddles; Quoi, during my love breakups. »
“A sentient being”
Beside her, Florence holds in her hand a simple bouquet made of lavender stalks and branches of papal money. “Jane was a sensitive being, a nature lover, I picked these flowers in my garden this morning for her”, says this fifties who refuses the word of « fan » : “She was, for me, a companion of heart and mind. » Pascal, retired, wanted to pay tribute to the actress: “I loved him in comedies with Pierre Richard. » He took a train at 5 a.m. to Soissons (Aisne) to be able to attend the farewell ceremony to that “whose intimate life we knew and who was very fond of France”.
Laurie, whose young age, 30, sets her apart in a crowd made up of many sexa-, even septuagenarians, evokes for her part “a splendid woman, with a timeless style”. She who says to herself “unconditional of Gainsbourg” would like to remind “the one who paid tribute to him all her life”. Bruno himself wanted “greet the nice girl. She wasn’t Callas, that’s for sure, but she loved people, it showed. »
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