Serge Gainsbourg's home in Paris to be turned into a museum later this year

The opening of the house, where Gainsbourg lived from 1969 until his death, was due to happen in March but has been pushed back towards the end of the year by the pandemic. This image shows Gainsbourg with his partner Birkin in Paris in 1973. Photo: AFP

Charlotte Gainsbourg didn't like discussing her father, the pioneering troubadour Serge Gainsbourg, as she struggled to share her personal grief with a public that still reveres him as the epitome of French libertine cool.

Now, on the 30th anniversary of his death, she is finally letting go, throwing open his home and able to enjoy the flood of tributes coming from artists and fans, young and old.