Paris (AFP)

Jane Birkin, 74, who suffered "a mild form of stroke" last week, cancels her commitments until the end of the year to rest, according to a family statement sent to AFP Tuesday by his agent.

"Jane Birkin's doctors inform us that following her stroke, she must rest until the end of the year before returning to her audience in 2022. All her activities (including the three concerts she was to give at the Philharmonie de Paris on September 18, 19 and 20) are therefore postponed to a later date, "the text indicates.

Already, the participation of the singer and actress in the American film festival of Deauville, had been canceled.

Jane Birkin "is doing well", said her relatives Monday, wishing that the peace necessary for her convalescence is respected.

"Jane can't wait to find her audience," they added.

In addition to his presence at the Deauville festival, the artist's participation in the Ciné Rencontres festival in the Cotentin this week has also been canceled.

Jane Birkin was to defend in these cinematographic meetings the film "Jane by Charlotte", directed by her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg and presented this summer in Cannes, out of competition.

Jane Birkin and her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg pose on August 27, 2021 at the Angoulême Francophone film festival Yohan BONNET AFP / Archives

Born December 14, 1946 in London, Jane Birkin remains the favorite Englishwoman of the French, inseparable from Serge Gainsbourg, of whom she was the muse and ambassador. "When I see the French listen to songs that are forty years old, I know that they are part of their history. But they too are part of mine", she summed up in the publication in 2018 of her diary "Munkey diaries". It was in this book that she spoke openly about a long-to-fight leukemia that made its first appearance in her life in the late 1990s.

The tender and introspective documentary "Jane by Charlotte" shows the daily life of Jane Birkin, in her house in Brittany, the passion shared with her daughter for dogs, and also tackles the painful subjects of absence and illness.

"Our lives are articulated around the dead", exposed Charlotte Gainsbourg in Cannes, in reference to her father Serge Gainsbourg, icon of French music who died in 1991, and to her half-sister Kate Barry, photographer and daughter of composer John Barry , raised with Serge and died in tragic circumstances at the age of 46 in 2013.

During her last public appearances, Jane Birkin had shown herself in great shape, whether in Cannes or on stage at the Francofolies in La Rochelle, where she sang a repertoire taken from her last album "Oh! ", designed with Etienne Daho, and standards written for her by Serge Gainsbourg.

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