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Serge Gainsbourg museum swimming in debt despite success with visitors

The Serge Gainsbourg house and museum in Paris has been put into receivership, a kind of bankruptcy, because of alleged financial mismanagement by one of its financial backers. The museum can no longer pay its bills despite sold-out tickets a year after it opened.

Radio France Internationale

Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist

Hardy shot to fame singing airy, carefree pop before she took control of her career, hung out with 60s rock aristocracy and became a sophisticated singer-songwriter of rare sensuality and melancholy

The Guardian - UK

Eric Cantona on his musical reinvention: 'I was a rock star before I became a footballer. I was born with it'

The former Manchester United star has an album out and is on the road for a 14-date tour

Evening Standard

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Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

The Guardian - UK

Yorgo&Co unveils Yota Fonts, its new type foundry

Parisian creative studio Yorgo&Co launches Yota Fonts, its online retail typeface catalogue with four new font families and matching accessories

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Gone but not forgotten: Who did France say goodbye to in 2023?

The past 12 months have seen the deaths of people who made history in France and beyond, from politics to culture, business to science. RFI reviews some of 2023's most notable deaths.

Radio France Internationale

Jane Birkin remembered by Charlotte Rampling

As English actors who first met on a film set in 60s London then made a home in France, their lives ran on parallel lines

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Digested week: Some things are almost worth dying for – though not Rwanda

Shane MacGowan’s funeral offers food for thought while Rishi Sunak’s immigration policy is not deranged enough for some

The Guardian - UK

Anger over plan to name Métro station after ‘misogynist’ Serge Gainsbourg

Petition demanding station outside Paris does not use singer’s name has received 4,000 signatures

The Guardian - UK

32 Best Red Carpet Moments of the 1960s

Celebrity drama was just as intense!

Marie Claire

Music show: French duo 'Bandit Bandit' release first album '11:11'

This week, we chat to young up-and-coming French band Bandit Bandit. Composed of Maëva and Hugo, the duo make rock music filled with swirling guitar riffs, melodies and lyrics in French, delivered occasionally with the kind of nonchalance that would make Serge Gainsbourg proud. They've just released their first album…

France 24

Fans recount emotional visit to Serge Gainsbourg's hidden Paris home

After more than 32 years under wraps, the doors to French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg's Paris residence have finally reopened. The first visitors to his house, and a nearby museum, found the experience an emotional one.

Radio France Internationale

Serge Gainsbourg's house opens as long-awaited museum

More than 30 years after his death, the former home of French pop legend Serge Gainsbourg opened to the public on Wednesday – and tickets are already sold out for the rest of the year.

Radio France Internationale

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

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Paris bids final farewell to Jane Birkin, the most British of French icons

Hundreds of fans joined film legends and family members to bid farewell to British-born actress and singer Jane Birkin at her funeral in Paris on Monday.

Evening Standard

Jane Birkin funeral: Tributes paid to style icon as celebrities join family and friends to say farewell in Paris

Vanessa Paradis and Brigitte Macron among mourners at ceremony

Radio France Internationale

Jane Birkin, an English chanteuse who left her mark on French pop

Born in London, Jane Birkin moved to Paris in her 20s and never left. While she’s remembered outside France primarily as the woman doing the moaning on an erotic duet with Serge Gainsbourg, over the span of a 50-year career she threw herself into the French musical tradition and carved…

The Independent UK

Jane Birkin’s Paris home ‘targeted by thieves’ days after death as family release statement

Singer’s family says she died on first night alone in two years

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Evening Standard

Jane Birkin died ‘on her first night alone for almost two years’, family reveal

Singer and actress Jane Birkin died on her first night alone for almost two years as she tried to regain her independence while fighting cancer, it emerged on Wednesday.

France 24

Jane Birkin: The British actress who became a French icon

She was an icon in France: a British actress, singer and muse to many. In this edition we remember Jane Birkin, who died on Sunday at the age of 76. A British woman who was a cultural idol for the French, the lover and collaborator of one of their most…

Evening Standard

Jane Birkin — the Londoner who became fashion’s eternal muse

The ‘morning after’ hair, the gap-tooth smile, the oversized men’s blazers and — of course — the Hermès bag, Jane Birkin wielded once-in-a-generation style power, says Teo van den Broeke

Evening Standard

Emmanuel Macron, Alexa Chung and Carla Bruni lead tributes to “French icon” Jane Birkin

Leading names from the worlds of politics, fashion, Hollywood and music have released messages about the late Jane Birkin

Evening Standard

‘Keep smiling, it takes 10 years off!’ — Jane Birkin’s life in quotes

From smoking to stealing and Serge Gainsbourg, Martha Alexander reveals the icon’s greatest soundbites over the years

Marie Claire

We look back at 27 times Jane Birkin inspired our wardrobes

Evening Standard

Emmanuel Macron describes Jane Birkin as ‘French icon’ following death at 76

The singer and actress was found dead at her home in Paris, according to French media

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