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Kim Willsher in Paris and Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill

Jane Birkin, actor and singer, dies aged 76

Jane Birkin in France in the early 1960s
Jane Birkin in France in the early 1960s. President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday she was ‘a French icon. A complete artist.’ Photograph: Reporters Associes/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

France’s favourite “petite Anglaise”, the British-born singer and actor Jane Birkin, has died at her home in Paris aged 76.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, paid tribute to Birkin, saying she “embodied freedom and sang the most beautiful words in our language”.

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