5 bis rue de Verneuil, in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, is a legendary address that all Serge Gainsbourg fans know. Indeed, this is where the singer lived and worked for a long time. This place, long closed to the public, Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of the author and performer ofElisaof I love you… me neither and so many other legendary titles, decided to open it to visitors, after having considered moving there for a while when she had money problems. A project in which she had also planned to involve her mother, Jane Birkin, but the death of the latter, on July 16, 2023 at the age of 76, prevented her from doing so.
Serge Gainsbourg’s house victim of numerous thefts
Among the reasons which pushed Charlotte Gainsbourg to open the Maison Gainsbourg to the public, there was of course the wish to pay homage to her father, but also the intention to put an end to the repeated thefts to which the place was too often the victim. “We had to act because in my absence, people sent me photos which prove that it was visited, that evenings were organized there without my knowledge. Lots of items have disappeared“, she confided to Release Monday September 18, 2023. Fortunately, despite these shameful lootings, many objects that belonged to Serge Gainsbourg are still present there, in particular his famous briefcase which contained “lots of 500 franc notes“ according to Yvan Attal’s partner.
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“Everything is very reassuring as if I were in the 80s”
However, opening the doors of the house where she grew up to strangers was not so easy for Charlotte Gainsbourg. “It’s very complicated for me. I’m very afraid of being disappropriatedconfides Ben Attal’s mother. When I moved to New York after the death of my sister Kate, I thought, either I sell it, or I make a museum, or I show it by appointment, but I stop this mourning. Because it was about mourning. Unfinished mourning“Moreover, Charlotte Gainsbourg confesses that a very strong bond still unites her today with her father’s home.”For thirty years, I’ve been walking into the house thinking he’s going to come back. There is its smell, she says. Everything is very reassuring as if I were in the 80s. The first fifteen years after his death, I had too much trouble leaving to go there often. It bothered me to be outside again. But I never did anything about it. I didn’t write, I didn’t listen to music. I wasn’t calling. There was no sound. It was a place where everything stops. I am frozen in time. And it was very sweet…“Now, this sanctuary that she has preserved intact for so long, Charlotte Gainsbourg has chosen to share it with the public to pay tribute to her father.
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