Jane Birkin: Stars pay tribute to singer, actress and magnificence icon at her funeral

Jul 24, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Jane Birkin: Stars pay tribute to singer, actress and magnificence icon at her funeral

Singer Vanessa Paradis and the French president’s spouse, Brigitte Macron, have been among the many well-known faces who paid tribute to singer and actress Jane Birkin at her funeral in Paris on Monday.

The British-French model icon, who lent her title to the Hermes Birkin purse, died earlier this month on the age of 76.

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Birkin in 1970. Pic: AP

The London-born star was discovered at her residence in Paris by her carer.

She was best-known for her 1969 hit single “Je t’aime… moi non plus” with then-husband Serge Gainsbourg.

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, the daughters of late singer, actress and muse Jane Birkin, arrive to attend their mother's funeral at the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris, France, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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Birkin’s daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon

Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, arrives to attend the funeral of late singer, actress and muse Jane Birkin at the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris, France, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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Brigitte Macron, the spouse of French President Emmanuel Macron, arrives for the service

Pallbearers carry the coffin of late singer, actress and muse Jane Birkin as they arrive at the funeral ceremony at the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris, France, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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Pallbearers carry the coffin into the church

Ms Birkin’s daughters Charlotte Gainsbourg, 51, and Lou Doillon, 40, led mourners into the Church of Saint-Roch.

“I already feel the vacuum she is leaving. This is my mother, our mother,” stated Ms Gainsbourg.

“Mother, thank you for not being ordinary and reasonable,” Ms Doillon stated.

Catherine Deneuve arrives to attend the funeral of late singer, actress and muse Jane Birkin at the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris, France, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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Catherine Deneuve exterior the church

Samuel Benchetrit and Vanessa Paradis arrive to attend the funeral of late singer, actress and muse Jane Birkin at the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris, France, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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French author Samuel Benchetrit and singer Vanessa Paradis

Charlotte Rampling arrives to attend the funeral of late singer, actress and muse Jane Birkin at the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris, France, July 24, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
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Actress Charlotte Rampling

Hundreds of individuals lined the streets exterior the church the place they listened to her music, with indicators studying “Jane Forever” and “Thank You Jane Birkin”, and watched the ceremony on an enormous display.

Birkin’s songs, together with “La Javanaise”, performed by means of audio system throughout the French capital.

Film stars Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling and Sandrine Kiberlain have been amongst those that attended the service.

Other mourners included singers Alain Souchon, Etienne Daho, who composed her final album, and Matthieu Chedid.

French singer Serge Gainsbourg and his girlfriend British actress Jane Birkin in 1974
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Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg in 1974

Birkin handbag
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Hermès Birkin purse. Pic: AP

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French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes when Ms Birkin’s demise was introduced, saying: “Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon.”

In France, the place she had lived because the late Nineteen Sixties, she grew to become a widely known and much-loved determine for her songs, roles in dozens of movies and the stance she took on a spread of points together with ladies’s and LGBT rights.