Paris, towards the opening of the house of Serge Gainsbourg

(ANSA) - PARIS, FEBRUARY 26 - 30 years after the death of Serge Gainsbourg, one of the most loved and popular songwriters in France, his daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg, also a singer and actress, has announced that she intends to open the house of the father by the end of the year, to make it a place "truly rooted in the Parisian heritage". The house for years now a destination for pilgrimage - in the heart of the Parisian left bank, right in front of the one where another great Frenchman, Robert Schuman, one of the founding fathers of the European Union, lived - is located at number 5 bis of rue de Verneuil, in heart of the Parisian rivegauche. For Charlotte Gainsbourg, the decision to open it to the public was not easy: "In the first ten years, when I was very sure of the project, it was difficult to put it into practice. Afterwards, I backed down, it was all I had left of him, so the I kept it like a treasure. But when I left New York six years ago, now I'm back in Paris, I saw things in a more detached way and I realized that it was necessary to do it. For people, but also for my mental health, I have to be able to I have to make sure that it is truly an accessible place, rooted in Parisian heritage. " In the meantime, in France and on the net there are tributes to the singer-songwriter in view of the thirty anniversary of his disappearance, on 2 March 1991 at the age of 62. Tonight, on the public broadcaster France 3, a documentary dedicated to his life, 'Gainsbourg, toute une vie', will also be broadcast at 9.05 pm. (HANDLE).