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Chez Serge The method and mess of Maison Gainsbourg

Since his death in 1991, fans of the singer-songwriter and French cultural icon Serge Gainsbourg have turned his home in a quiet street in the chic 7th arrondissement of Paris into a shrine.

For more than 30 years they have painted graffiti and portraits on the outside walls and left quotes and messages of love and affection in homage to the controversial artist hailed as both a great poet and a grandstanding provocateur.

Now the property, owned by his daughter, the actor Charlotte Gainsbourg, and

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