2023-12-22 19:10:00
By Elsa Girard-Basset | Web journalist
Although he has experienced several major love stories in his life, Serge Gainsbourg obviously remains associated with Jane Birkin, with whom he experienced a passion as intense as it was all-consuming. At the start of their romance, moreover, “Gainsbarre” let himself be carried away somewhat by behavior which covered him with ridicule when his sweetheart was filming with Alain Delon. A cult anecdote.
He wasn’t the most handsome or physically attractive. However, Serge Gainsbourg will have had in his bed some of the most beautiful women in the world, from Catherine Deneuve to Brigitte Bardot via Jane Birkin, with whom he had a 12-year romance. And if the British woman ended up leaving him for Jacques Doillon in 1980, it was partly because the musician had too many flaws… including his jealousy.
Too jealous, Serge Gainsbourg ridiculous in front of Alain Delon
To understand one of the episodes that best illustrates this weakness of Gainsbourg, we have to go back to the end of the 1960s and the filming of the cult film “The Swimming Pool”. If Romy Schneider was obviously the major female star on the bill, Jane Birkin, newly in a relationship with her man, also appeared in the credits. Enough to petrify “Gainsbarre”, who feared that Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet would seduce his beloved.
In comments relayed by the book “Jane Birkin, on edge”, the actress said that the interpreter of “The Javanese” visited the filming location very regularly to ensure that everything was going well.
He was very jealous, which was a clear indication that he was in love. He traveled back and forth by train every two days.
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So far, nothing very notable, with the possible exception of the draconian pace that Gainsbourg imposed on himself to go see Birkin. But here it is: to drive the point home and permanently remove the Delon threat, the man with the head of cabbage wants to show off. And in doing so, he publicly ridicules himself. Tele-Leisure explain :
Every two days, therefore, the man who would later become “Gainsbarre” kept going back and forth to the set, and even rented a Cadillac Fleetwood to try to impress Alain Delon.
Funny anecdote: the car is so big that it doesn’t fit in the narrow streets of the city and the singer makes a fool of himself. While the author of La Javanaise tries to move around, the actress puts all their belongings on the roof. “We were taken for Mexican gypsies,” she continues.
We can easily imagine that Alain Delon must have burst out laughing when he learned this story, he who was indeed a very great seducer. However, among the many actresses and singers he has seduced, the Samurai has no confirmed relationship with Jane Birkin. So, Gainsbourg may have finally had the last word…
If he liked to give himself a neglected air, suggesting that nothing was affecting him, Serge Gainsbourg lost his lucidity as he feared that Jane Birkin would give in to the advances of Alain Delon. Assessment? A very embarrassing session for the artist, who, fortunately, did not end his very beautiful story with the British muse.
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