July 16, 2023 / 4:16 PM EDT / CBS/AP Actor and singer Jane Birkin, who made France her home and charmed the country with her English grace, natural style and social activism, has died at age 76.

Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (1969) This album, with iconic songs “Je t’aime…moi non plus” (“I love you…me neither”) and “Jane B.”, helped solidify Birkin’s music career.

It was first sold for $2,000 in 1984, but a standard leather Birkin now costs north of $10,000 new. Some of its pricer models, including the crocodile and diamond-encrusted Birkin bags, can cost ...

It felt like a new Jane Birkin, inhabiting her physicality in a way that was almost dangerously unrestrained — and it earned her the first of three César Award nominations.