Jane Birkin obituary: Franco-British singer, actress and style icon

She is survived by Charlotte and Lou, and six grandchildren, and by her brother, Andrew, and sister, Linda. Kate, a photographer, died in 2013

Jane Birkin, who died today aged 76. File Picture:: Yui Mok/PA Wire

The sultry 1969 hit single Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus was a four-and-a-half-minute distillation of languid Gallic cool, in which a Frenchman, his voice coarsened by Gitanes, is heard billing and cooing with an ecstatically sighing young Englishwoman over the swirling motif of a baroque organ. 

That man was Serge Gainsbourg; his companion was Jane Birkin, the actor and singer, who has died aged 76.