Je t'aime... moi non plus

The year is 1969. Serge Gainsbourg meets Jane Birkin. The most passionate and creative marriage of all time ensues. He as mentor. She as muse. Together, so fucking beautiful. It really doesn't get any better than these two.

Je t'aime... moi non plus is the sexiest love song ever made. The duet was originally recorded with Gainsbourg's then-lover Brigitte Bardot who was unhappily married to German millionaire Gunter Sachs. Bardot went back to her husband who demanded Gainsbourg not release their recorded version. A broken hearted Gainsbourg complied. Later that same year, Gainsbourg met and fell in love with the love of his life, Jane Birkin who replaced Bardot in the re-recorded version.



The release of Je t'aime... moi non plus caused a wicked scandal. The song was denounced by the Vatican and banned for its salacious lyrics and ecstatic moans that are intended as an imaginary dialogue between two lovers during sex.

So what happens to the great love story? Well, Gainsbourg sweeps Birkin off her feet on an all-night whirlwind nightclub tour of Paris. Bardot and Sachs soon divorce. Gainsbourg and Birkin marry. They have a daughter, the remarkably talented Charlotte. Their love affair lasts 13 years until Birkin leaves Gainsbourg when pregnant with her daughter, Lou by film director Jacques Doillon, whom she later marries. Bardot's recording with Gainsbourg is released in 1980. Gainsbourg dies of a heart attack in 1991. Bardot remarries Barnard d'Ormale in 1992. Fin.