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Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varie…
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Born 2 April 1928 · Died 2 March 1991 · Q1698
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2026· 12 entries
Sortiraparis.com: Heritage Days 2026: The Gainsbourg House unveils Serge Gainsbourg's universe in Paris
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Yahoo: Why Serge Gainsbourg's Duet With Jane Birkin Was Banned in Multiple Countries
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Published video “Sea, Sex And Sun ♫♪”.
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Published video “Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais ♫♪ #sergegainsbourg”.
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Published video “"Mon légionnaire" #sergegainsbourg”.
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Published video “La Javanaise ♫♪ #sergegainsbourg”.
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Published video “Serge Gainsbourg - Parce que (Audio Officiel)”.
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Published video “La Chanson de Prévert #gainsbourg”.
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Published video “Je t'aime moi non plus #gainsbourg”.
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Published video “"Nazi Rock" (extrait) #gainsbourg”.
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2025· 3 entries
Published video “Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais ♫♪ #gainsbourg”.
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Published video “La chanson de Prévert ♫♪ #gainsbourg”.
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The Guardian: ‘It wasn’t my intention to shock!’ Jean-Claude Vannier on working with Serge Gainsbourg and setting his new album in the gutter
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2024· 2 entries
Stereogum: This Fall We’re Dressing As French Children Paying Tribute To Serge Gainsbourg On An ’80s TV Show
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Radio France Internationale: Serge Gainsbourg museum swimming in debt despite success with visitors
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2023· 7 entries
The Guardian: Anger over plan to name Métro station after ‘misogynist’ Serge Gainsbourg
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The Guardian: ‘A salon, a studio, a brothel’: inside Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris home
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Yahoo: Serge Gainsbourg’s former home is opening to visitors, but tickets are sold out until December
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Wall Street Journal: Inside Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s Storied Home
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The Guardian: Serge Gainsbourg’s 20 greatest recordings – ranked!
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The Guardian: ‘A very arranged mess’: Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris home to open to public
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Released album “La Comédie-Française chante Gainsbourg”.
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2020· 3 entries
The Guardian: Jane Birkin: 'Serge Gainsbourg was never a boring genius'
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Released album “La Chanson de Prévert”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Intoxicated Man”.
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Released album “Ronsard 58”.
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2018· 4 entries
Released album “L'Archive Secret 1957-62”.
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Released album “40 Classic “Chansons Francaises””.
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Released album “Gainsbourg London Paris 1963 - 1971”.
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Released album “90 Séquences”.
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2017· 1 entry
Pitchfork named it the 44th best album of the 1960s
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2016· 1 entry
Released album “The Serge Gainsbourg Collection / 1958-62”.
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2015· 3 entries
Released album “Gainsbourg in Dub”.
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Released album “Le Cinéma de Serge Gainsbourg”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg & The Revolutionaries”.
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2014· 3 entries
Released album “Jane & Serge 1973”.
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Released album “Lost Loves”.
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Released album “2CD Essential”.
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2013· 3 entries
Released album “Intégrale Serge Gainsbourg et ses Interprètes, Volume 2: 1960-1962”.
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Released album “1952~1962”.
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Released album “Le Poinçonneur des Lilas”.
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2012· 4 entries
Released album “Été d’amour”.
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Released album “Pablo”.
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Released album “Le Disque d’or”.
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Released album “À son meilleur”.
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2011· 6 entries
Released album “L’Essentiel des albums studio : 1958-1987”.
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Released album “4 albums originaux: Vu de l’extérieur / Rock Around the Bunker / Aux armes et cætera / Love on the Beat”.
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Released album “Best of Gainsbourg: Comme un boomerang”.
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Released album “Les Interprètes de Serge Gainsbourg”.
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Released album “Intégrale - 20ème Anniversaire - Edition 2011”.
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Released album “Intégrale Serge Gainsbourg et ses Interprètes 1957-1960”.
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2010· 4 entries
Released album “Le Claqueur de mots : 1958-1959”.
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Released album “L’Amour à la papa”.
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Released album “Le Poinçonneur des Lilas : The Early Years”.
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Released album “4 albums originaux”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Songs on Page One”.
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Released album “Ses premières années”.
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Ses plus grands succès”.
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Paris's Cité de la Musique held the Gainsbourg 2008 exhibition, curated by sound artist Frédéric Sanchez
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “Manon 70 / Si j’étais un espion / Le Jardinier d’Argenteuil / Anna”.
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Released album “Les 50 Plus Belles Chansons”.
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Released album “Les Années psychédéliques : 1966–1971”.
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Released album “Serge Gainsbourg, Vol. 1”.
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2006· 3 entries
Released album “Monsieur Gainsbourg: The Originals”.
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Released album “Mister Melody : Les Interprètes de Serge Gainsbourg”.
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Released album “Les 100 plus belles chansons”.
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Love and the Beat”.
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Inédits: Les archives 1958-1985”.
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Released album “Anthologie”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Initials SG”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “Gainsbourg… Forever”.
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Released album “De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre 1958-1991”.
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Gall expressed displeasure at Gainsbourg's earlier antics, stating she felt "betrayed by the adults around me
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2000· 1 entry
Released album “Ballades & mots d’amour”.
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Ses plus belles chansons”.
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1998· 1 entry
Released album “Classé X”.
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1996· 5 entries
Released album “Comic Strip”.
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Awarded César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Élisa (1996).
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Released album “Du jazz dans le ravin”.
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Released album “Couleur café”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg en trois styles”.
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1991· 3 entries
Died 1991-03-02.
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Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France
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Released album “Serge Gainsbourg, Vol. 3”.
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Victory of honor (1990).
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1989· 10 entries
Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 6: Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais, 1972-1975”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 2: La Javanaise, 1961-1963”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 9: Anna, 1967, 1976, 1980”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 1: Le Poinçonneur des Lilas, 1958-1960”.
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Released album “De Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 3: Couleur café, 1963-1964”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 8: Aux armes et cætera, 1979-1981”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 5: Je t'aime... moi non plus, 1969-1971”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 4: Initials B.B., 1966-1968”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg, Volume 7: L'Homme à la tête de chou, 1975-1978, 1981”.
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1988· 2 entries
Released album “Serge Gainsbourg, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Serge Gainsbourg”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “You’re Under Arrest”.
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1985· 2 entries
Awarded Victoire de la pochette de disques for Love on the Beat (1985).
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Awarded Victory of the album for Love on the Beat (1985).
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Love on the Beat”.
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1983· 2 entries
Released album “1958-1983 : 25 ans”.
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Released album “Gainsbourg”.
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1982· 1 entry
Gainsbourg contributed his songwriting to French rock singer Alain Bashung's fourth studio album Play blessures, which was a left turn creatively for Bashung and is often considered a cult classic despite negative contem
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1981· 1 entry
Released album “Mauvaises nouvelles des étoiles”.
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1980· 2 entries
But the two remained close, with Gainsbourg becoming the godfather of Birkin and Jacques Doillon's daughter Lou and writing her next three albums
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Gainsbourg dueted with actress Catherine Deneuve on the hit song "Dieu fumeur de havanes" from the film Je vous aime and published a novella entitled Evguénie Sokolov, the tale of an avant-garde painter who exploits his
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1979· 2 entries
Released album “Aux armes et cætera”.
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A show had to be cancelled, because an angry mob of French Army parachutists came to demonstrate in the audience
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1978· 1 entry
Gainsbourg dropped plans to record another concept album and contacted several Jamaican musicians including rhythm section players Sly and Robbie with the intention of recording a reggae album
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Serge Gainsbourg chante ses plus grands succès de 1958 à 1976”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “L’Homme à tête de chou”.
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Gainsbourg also made his directorial debut with Je t'aime moi non plus, an offbeat drama named after his song of the same name
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1975· 3 entries
“s debut solo album Di doo dah and he would continue to write for her until his death. In 1975, Gainsbourg released the darkly comic album Rock Around the Bunker, performed in an upbeat 1950s rock and roll style and written on the subject of Nazi Germany and the Second World War, drawing from his experiences as a Jewish child in occupied France. The next year saw the release of yet another concept album, L”
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Released album “Rock Around the Bunker”.
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Gainsbourg released the darkly comic album Rock Around the Bunker, performed in an upbeat 1950s rock and roll style and written on the subject of Nazi Germany and the Second World War, drawing from his experiences as a J
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Grandes Chansons de Gainsbourg « La Chanson de Prévert »”.
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Vu de l’extérieur”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Histoire de Melody Nelson”.
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg”.
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1968· 2 entries
Released album “Initials B.B.”.
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Released album “Bonnie and Clyde”.
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1967· 1 entry
Gainsbourg wrote the script and provided the soundtrack for the musical comedy television film Anna starring Anna Karina in the titular role
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1964· 1 entry
Released album “Gainsbourg Percussions”.
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1963· 1 entry
Released album “Confidentiel”.
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1962· 3 entries
Incorporating Latin and rock and roll influences whilst his next, Gainsbourg Confidentiel (1963), featured a more minimalistic jazz approach, accompanied only by a double bass and electric guitar
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But it is Gainsbourg's rendition that has endured
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Released album “N°4”.
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “L’Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg”.
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1960· 1 entry
With his single "L'Eau à la bouche", the title song from the film of the same name, for which he had composed the score
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1959· 2 entries
Released album “Nº2”.
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With a supporting role in the French-Italian co-production Come Dance with Me, starring his future lover Brigitte Bardot
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1958· 2 entries
Released album “Du chant à la une !…”.
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Arnaud began recording several interpretations of Gainsbourg's songs
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1957· 1 entry
Arnaud and the club's director Francis Claude discovered Gainsbourg's compositions while visiting his home to see his paintings
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1951· 1 entry
And the marriage ended in divorce in 1957
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1948· 1 entry
Serge was conscripted by the military for twelve months of service in Courbevoie
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1945· 1 entry
Gainsbourg's father enrolled him in Beaux-Arts de Paris, a prestigious art school
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-04-02.
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1921· 1 entry
Settling in Paris near Olga's brother, who worked for the Louis Dreyfus Bank
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1894· 1 entry
To a Russian-Jewish family, Serge's mother was a mezzo-soprano singer
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