“I find myself an orphan”: at the funeral of Jane Birkin, the poignant words of Charlotte

” I thank my father for loving my mother so much. I thank my mother for having loved it so much too. I find myself an orphan. I see all your souls in pain, without her, I already see the void she leaves us. It’s mom, our mom “, said in particular Charlotte Gainsbourg, fighting against tears. The latter also recalled Jane Birkin’s attachment to Brittany, where her father had distinguished himself during the Second World War.

Carole Bouquet, Vanessa Paradis, Catherine Deneuve… the stars united at the funeral of Jane Birkin

Lou Doillon also took the floor to pay tribute to her mother. The interpreter, daughter of Jacques Doillon, for her part listed the many memories she will keep of her mother, so many touching and amusing anecdotes which illustrate the spontaneity, the tenderness and the life full of adventures of Jane Birkin. Memories shared with her sisters Kate Barry and Charlotte Gainsbourg, but also with the grandchildren of Jane B. Happy memories which also included Alain Souchon, Pierre Arditi, Jacques Doillon…

” You put everyone first and sometimes it pissed us off. You loved your audience more than anything […]. Mom thank you for all these adventures, thank you for not being ordinary, reasonable or docile. This very peaceful and reasoned world of tomorrow, it already annoys me “, concluded Lou Doillon, his throat tied, facing an audience of celebrities united in mourning.

Jane Birkin died on Sunday July 16, at the age of 76, after a long battle with illness. It was in this same Saint-Roch church that Jane Birkin had said goodbye to her eldest daughter Kate Barry, who died in 2013. Like her daughter before her, Serge Gainsbourg’s ex-girlfriend will be buried in the Montparnasse cemetery later in the day, in privacy.