She dreamed of inaugurating it this Tuesday for the thirtieth anniversary of her father's death.
The delay will be too short, but the countdown has finally started.
Charlotte Gainsbourg has been hoping for twenty years to transform her father Serge's house into a museum into a museum at 5, bis, rue de Verneuil, in Paris (7th district).
So a few months of patience do not worry her ... "Given the current situation, things have not progressed at the desired speed, but the project is launched", she confided to us last October.
And today she can announce it: "We hope to open it at the start of the school year, before the end of the year if possible", she has just declared to Agence France Presse (AFP).
The building permit necessary for the very complex redevelopment of the premises was issued in mid-December by the town planning department of the City of Paris, as indicated by a panel on the facade covered with drawings and tributes, which has become a place of pilgrimage for fans. of the whole world.
After finding a financial partner, Charlotte Gainsbourg bought the adjoining apartment and then launched the work allowing the public to access her father's very narrow private mansion - thanks in particular to an outdoor elevator - and to create a museum space on the ground floor. -of the road.
Charlotte bought the house
Three years ago, she explained her approach to us while launching an appeal to partners.
After the death of her father, when she was 19, "we shared everything ... We manage moral rights all four
(Editor's note: with Paul and Natacha Gainsbourg, children of her first couple, and Lulu Gainsbourg, son of Bamboo)
.
We didn't have any trouble.
I wanted to buy the house on rue de Verneuil.
The others didn't want to and we can understand them
(laughs)
.
I need help because I can't and won't do it alone.
"
"We hope to open the museum at the start of the school year", announces Charlotte Gainsbourg.
LP / Fred Dugit
For thirty years, nothing has been touched in this house which already had everything of a museum during the singer's lifetime.
“We are not going to discover things about his work but the framework of his work,” explains his daughter.
It's him, his personality, it's quite surprising.
We have the image of artists who are in huge, luxurious spaces, there it is relatively modest.
Initially, they are old stables, it is not high ceiling, it is not the Haussmann apartment par excellence.
There is a tiny kitchen.
"
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“What is moving is a bust of my mother
(Editor's note: Jane Birkin)
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It's a cast of her body, it's very, very beautiful, ”points out Charlotte Gainsbourg, who sometimes hesitated to share this so intimate place.
“In the beginning, it was the family home, with my mother, my sister, him and me,” she also recalled.
At the time of my mother, there were few things, then afterwards there was more and more very arranged mess
(laughs)
.
He transformed that during his lifetime into a museum full of objects, it was difficult to walk without being afraid of breaking something ”.
We can bet that the visits will be in small groups.