Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and with her English grace, natural style and social activism, has died at age 76.

The London-born star and fashion icon was known for her musical and romantic relationship with French singer Serge Gainsbourg. Their songs notably included the steamy 91裸聊视频淛e t91裸聊视频檃ime moi non plus91裸聊视频� (91裸聊视频淚 Love You, Me Neither91裸聊视频�). Birkin91裸聊视频檚 ethereal, British-accented singing voice interlaced with his gruff baritone in the 1969 duet that helped make her famous and was forbidden in Italy after being denounced in the Vatican newspaper.

The style Birkin displayed in the 1960s and early 1970s 91裸聊视频� long hair with bangs, jeans paired with white tops, knit mini dresses and basket bags 91裸聊视频� still epitomizes the height of French chic for many women around the world.

Birkin was also synonymous with a Hermes bag that bore her name. Created by the Paris fashion house in 1984 in her honor, the Birkin bag became one of the world91裸聊视频檚 , with a stratospheric price tag and years-long waiting list to buy it.

In her adopted France, Birkin was also celebrated for her political activism and campaigning for Amnesty International, Myanmar91裸聊视频檚 pro-democracy movement, the fight against AIDS and other causes.

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She joined five monks on a march through the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 to demand that Myanmar let foreign aid workers into the country to help cyclone victims.

In 2022, she joined other screen and music stars in France in chopping off in support of protesters in Iran. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Birkin91裸聊视频檚 daughter with Gainsbourg and also an actor in her own right, cut off a snippet of her mother91裸聊视频檚 hair for the 91裸聊视频淗airForFreedom91裸聊视频� campaign as Iran was .

French President Emmanuel Macron hailed Birkin as a 91裸聊视频渃omplete artist,91裸聊视频� noting that her soft voice went hand-in-hand with her 91裸聊视频渁rdent91裸聊视频� activism.

91裸聊视频淛ane Birkin was a French icon because she was the incarnation of freedom, sang the most beautiful words of our language,91裸聊视频� he tweeted.

French media reported that Birkin was found dead at her Paris home. The French Culture Ministry tweeted that Birkin died Sunday. It hailed her as a 91裸聊视频渢imeless Francophone icon.91裸聊视频�

Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak called Birkin 91裸聊视频渢he most French British person91裸聊视频� and 91裸聊视频渢he emblem for a whole epoch who never went out of fashion.91裸聊视频�

Outside Birkin91裸聊视频檚 home on Paris91裸聊视频� Left Bank, fans mourned her death.

91裸聊视频淪he was a poet, a singer, an artist,91裸聊视频� said Marie-Jo Bonnet. 91裸聊视频淪he gave the best of herself and that91裸聊视频檚 marvelous.91裸聊视频�

Birkin91裸聊视频檚 early movie credits included 91裸聊视频淏low-Up91裸聊视频� in 1966, credited with helping introduce French audiences to her 91裸聊视频淪winging Sixties91裸聊视频� style and beauty.

Birkin and Gainsbourg met two years later. She remained his muse even after the couple separated in 1980.

She also had a daughter, Kate, with James Bond composer John Barry. Kate Barry died in 2013 at age 46. Birkin had her third daughter, singer and model Lou Doillon, with French director Jacques Doillon.

Birkin suffered from health issues in recent years that kept her from performing and her public appearances became sparse.

French broadcaster BFMTV said Birkin suffered a mild stroke in 2021, forcing her to cancel shows that year. She canceled her shows again in March due to a broken shoulder blade.

A return to performing was put off in May, with the singer saying she needed a bit more time and promising her fans she would see them again come the fall.

Despite her decades-long screen and music career, Birkin suspected that, for some people, the bag named after her might be her most famous legacy.

The fashion accessory was born of a fortuitous encounter on a London-bound flight in the 1980s with the then-head of Hermes, Jean-Louis Dumas. Birkin recounted in subsequent interviews that they got talking after she spilled some of her things on the cabin floor. She asked Dumas why Hermes didn91裸聊视频檛 make a bigger handbag and sketched out on an airplane vomit sack the sort of bag that she91裸聊视频檇 like.

Dumas then had an example made for her and, flattered, she said yes when Hermes asked whether it could commercialize the bag in her name.

In a CBS Sunday Morning , Birkin joked that it might be what she91裸聊视频檚 best known for.

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