“A Fierce Battle”: Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon Talk About Jane Birkin’s Illness and Disappearance

“Jane Birkin’s funeral will be by invitation, in the intimacy of family and friends”. Twitter journalists ofAFP ,french media agency) Jean-François Guyot, Monday July 17, 2023.

The day before, on Sunday July 16, 2023, at around eleven o’clock in the morning, the British-French singer and actress died at her Paris home. She was 76 years old.

Since then, tributes from celebrities, friends and anonymous people have multiplied on social networks, airwaves, television channels. His daughters, Lou Doillon and Charlotte Gainsbourg, published a brief and poignant press release on Monday, July 17, which was shared on Twitter by several journalists such as Didier Perron. release.

Words by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon

Charlotte Gainsbourg, daughter of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon of Jane Birkin and Jacques Doillon, wrote in the document that their mother “after a fierce 16-year battle against illness, she had a stroke, editor’s Note) in September 2021″.

Jane Birkin’s First and Only Night Alone

A paragraph later, and with the same poignant humility, the late singer’s daughters admit that she felt better in the last days before her death. “She was walking again, inspired to reschedule her Olympia and determined to regain her independence.” and to conclude: “This first evening alone, would be the last. He had decided it.”

Jane Birkin’s family toldAFP that he died of natural causes. The date of the funeral has not been announced yet.

Lou Doillon and Charlotte Gainsbourg have paired a portrait of their mother with these few chosen words. Radiant and smiling, she poses in front of the lens of Gabrielle Crawford, her friend and photographer from the 1960s.

In 1998, the interpreter I love you too Leukemia was diagnosed. After 13 years she fell ill again.

Jane Birkin was also the mother of Kate Barrie, a noted portrait photographer, who was born in 1967 to her affair with British-American film composer John Barrie and was found dead in Paris on 11 December 2013.