Jane Birkin Remembered: How Serge Gainsbourg’s Muse Eventually Took Control of Her Own Image By Peter Debruge. ... and insisted on giving a live concert at Paris’ Bataclan.

With Jane Birkin’s passing, France loses both an icon and one of its greatest enigmas. To focus on France is not to diminish the fact that Birkin’s death will be mourned around the world.

Birkin was moved to the cemetery of Montparnasse in the south of Paris, where she will be buried next to ex Serge Gainsbourg and her daughter Kate Barry, who died in 2013 at age 46.

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon carry mother Jane Birkin’s coffin at Paris funeral ‘I see already the emptiness that she has left behind,’ Gainsbourg told the congregation ...

Actor, singer and style icon Jane Birkin dies in Paris at age 76. ... The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg.

PARIS, France — Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, has died at age 76. The London-born star ...

With Jane Birkin’s passing, France loses both an icon and one of its greatest enigmas. To focus on France is not to diminish the fact that Birkin’s death will be mourned around the world ...

PARIS, France — Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, has died at age 76. The London-born star ...