This post is for all you Francophiles.
I recently read a review of a biography of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, by Sylvie Simmons. I couldn't buy it because the price violated my principle of not paying more than $9.99 for a Kindle book. (Well, I've violated it a few times, but not for a biography).
I googled Sylvie Simmons and saw that she had written an earlier biography of one Serge Gainsbourg.
Who was he, I wondered.
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As Wikipedia says, he was a French singer, songwriter, poet, composer, artist, actor and director, regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular music.
His lifelong partner, even though he co-habited with other women, including Brigitte Bardot, was Jane Birkin, British/French movie star, mother of Charlotte Gainsbourg, who I knew from having seen her in films.
Jane
Charlotte
A good book for $9.99, and I've filled a gap in my education.
Alain's favorite Gainsbourg quote, when asked why he didn't shre others' health concerns about his chain-smoking, heavy- drinking lifestyle: " smoke preserves the meat, and alcohol preserves the fruit." He lives to be 62. I guess this was probably on the book you read.
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