Je t'aime : the legendary love story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg
Mortaigne, Véronique2019
Books, Manuscripts
Véronique Mortaigne identifies the pairing of Gainsbourg and Birkin as an expression of the spirit of the age. Synonymous with love, eroticism, glamour, music, provocation, their affair would set France aflame as the sixties ebbed, and set in motion many of the ideas we have by now come to think of as specifically 'French'. Skipping back and forth in time, this book takes the reader from the foggy Normandy landscapes where Serge and Jane retreated, to their carefree summers on the coast. En route to their superstardom in films and music, we experience their intrigues, triangular relationships, and jealous rages, the genius and the self-torture. Tenderly told, via new interviews with key players in their story, Mortaigne details the coming together of two massive personalities, who together created a model of the rebel couple for the ages.
Main title:
Je t'aime : the legendary love story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg / Véronique Mortaigne ; translated by Georg Philipp von Pezold.
Author:
Mortaigne, Véronique, authorPezold, Georg Philipp von, translator
Imprint:
London : Icon, 2019.
Collation:
248 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography and index.
ISBN:
9781785784842 (pbk)
Dewey class:
791.430280922791.4302
LC class:
PN2598.B634
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
2413923