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Ollia Horton with RFI

HISTORICAL FACTS: Fans recount emotional visit to serge gainsbourg s hidden paris home - The Untold Story

Office-library on the first floor of Serge Gainsbourg's house at 5 bis rue de Verneuil, Paris. © Pierre Terrasson

After more than 32 years under wraps, the doors to French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg's Paris residence have finally reopened. The first visitors to his house, and a nearby museum, found the experience an emotional one.

Jérôme Bassin, a 40-year-old living in the Paris region, was clearly impacted by his half-hour audio-guided tour inside the house where Gainsbourg lived for 22 years.

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