Jane Birkin first came to public attention with her projects with Serge Gainsbourg before forging a long and varied career on her own.
The couple’s breathless song Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus was widely kept off the airwaves because of its adult content.
Birkin would eventually split from Gainsbourg, with whom she had a daughter, Charlotte – one of three children born to the actress.
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Her death in Paris at the age of 76 marks the end of a career that begin in the 1960s and would be honoured in the land of her birth by an OBE.
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The French capital’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, hailed her as “the most Parisian of the English”.
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