In an interview at the time, Charlotte noted that you could still smell the cigarettes in the space: "For 32 years, I preserved the house very well-no one went inside." If she had kept it so carefully, it was because it was all she had left of her father, she said.
In September 2023 the property, owned by his daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg and left entirely untouched for 32 years since his death in 1991, opened to the public as exactly that: a shrine to the mystery man.
More than 120,000 visitors have since made the pilgrimage, hailing the magic of walking through the living room and the tiny kitchen, the bathroom with its gigantic light fixture, the bedroom with its black velvet bed covers.
Tickets for 2025 went on sale in October, and none are available for the rest of 2024. There are fears, however, that this may not last for long. On 18 September, the company that runs Maison Gainsbourg went into redressement judiciaire (judicial restructuring), due to unpaid bills totalling €1.6m.
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