The love story between Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg A legend of passion, whispers, quarrels and style

Jane Birkin was a singer, songwriter, actress, style icon and mother of three artists. Throughout her life she travelled, worked, suffered and loved, especially Serge Gainsbourg. The poet and "la petite Anglaise" were a couple for 12 years. Just over a decade that consisted of albums, songs with a high erotic content, a daughter (Charlotte Gainsbourg), passion, great public tirades, jealousy and a complicity that would never leave them, not even when their love story was over. Free, sensual and unconsciously cool, they inspire each other's creativity and go down in history as the most legendary couples of all time.

The first meeting 

Twelve years of love. A story that is still talked about today. And why? Because together they are beautiful, cool, outrageous and unconventional. She has that mixture of Swinging London and effortless Parisian chic, he has the magnetism of the cursed poet. She gives him styling tips, he writes entire albums for her. From their first meeting on set in 1968 until Jane says she's had enough because she's tired of Serge's alcoholism, they live together (in the flat at 5 bis rue de Verneul in the 7th arrondissement). "We should not exaggerate, we were not the Kennedys! We were supposed to embody a form of freedom. Our 20-year age difference, our lifestyle - we went out at night, came home to wake Kate and Charlotte before school, and slept during the day - our own imagination, our lack of taboos... Serge used to say, 'We are not an immoral couple, we are an amoral couple'." Tells Birkin. Their love is unruly, a precarious balance of great passionate outbursts and fierce public tirades. The episode in the Castel bar in Paris is legendary. Jane is furious that Gainsbourg is rifling through her basket of her most secret possessions and throws a custard pie in his face before chasing him down the Boulevard St Germain. He, in turn, becomes enraged. To calm her anger and blow off steam, Jane jumps into the Seine in her Yves Saint Laurent top, resurfaces and happily returns home arm in arm with Gainsbourg. Their routine is a rollercoaster ride. Legend has it that they spend their nights dancing, but always return on time to wake their daughters and take them to school. Then they start their trips all over again. Day after day. Until the balance breaks. Jane cannot stand Serge and his alcoholism. They separate, but continue to work together. To love each other. Forever.