He would amuse his new pals with his art college skills, drawing “hyper-réaliste” erotic pictures for them, then sit down and write passionate love letters to Elisabeth – once getting so worked up by his own skilful prose and artwork that he made an abortive attempt at deserting in order to make love to her. Au début, ça n’accroche pas : elle est belle, sophistiquée, il est intimidé et sarcastique … Élisabeth Levitsky ou Lise Levitzky, née le 5 mars 1926, à Pau, est une peintre française d'origine russe. We talked dirty, strummed our guitars, sang stupid stuff and visited whores.” And, since he didn’t get sent off to Algeria to fight, he had the time and opportunity to hone his skills in all of the above areas. He was still studying art, as well as teaching it, and making some extra money colourising black and white movie photos for the local cinema and decorating fake Louis XIII furniture. März 1991 in Paris … This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Dans sa vie, Serge Gainsbourg s’est marié à deux reprises. Sa femme ,elisabeth LEVITSKY a publiée quelques contes dans cette revue aussi. He realized that it wasn’t avant-garde, that it wasn’t good enough, so he broke one of his paintings over his first wife’s head. Serge, he thought, sounded more Russian. Hardly surprising that he should later describe sex as “onanisme, par personne interposée”. Quand on pense aux enfants de Serge Gainsbourg, on pense à Charlotte, née en 1971 de sa relation avec Jane Birkin et à Lulu, né en 1986 de relation avec Bambou. Elle a été mannequin de mode et secrétaire du poète surréaliste Georges Hugnet. It also, he quickly discovered, had several other advantages; among them drinking and smoking on the job, getting to hear some great performers (Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Django Reinhardt) and finding himself in what he must have felt was the unlikeliest of positions of becoming a sexual magnet for the female clientele. It might not have been as glamorous as the French Foreign Legion that Cole Porter had once belonged to, but the 93rd Regiment at Charras was, he said, “a universe of men. He would also make little paintings for the class and he knew how to frame them. And he chose Gainsbourg because he loved the English painter Gainsborough. Elle a étudié la peinture à l'Académie de Montmartre (devenue par la suite l'Académie Fernand Léger) et c'est lors d'un cours de peinture, en mars 1947, qu'elle rencontre Lucien Ginsburg (fils d'immigrants juifs russes), le futur Serge Gainsbourg, de deux ans son cadet (elle a alors 21 ans). Somehow Lucien and Elisabeth appropriated the keys and, on one delirious night that stayed tattooed in his memory, fucked in Dali’s all-black living-room – its walls and ceiling covered in astrakhan, the curly black material used on old-fashioned coat collars – on a pile of priceless artworks by Miro, Ernst, Picasso and their unwitting host, scattered on the floor. I think, timid thing that he was, that he found that if he had a little bit too much to drink he was funny – he was the one standing on the chair telling jokes whereas before he would have gone red with shyness – and that he could suddenly have chums and take a girl out without being too worried.”, Lucien had been offered an officership, merely on the grounds of having been evidently better-educated than the other recruits, but he turned it down, preferring to stay in the rank and file. The next group of women intimidated him so badly that he wound up picking the ugliest one who, on a grubby bed in a grubby room, chewed gum through the entire transaction. Son album Made in China, sorti en 1989 et composé par Családja. Serge said ‘How do you know?’ I said, ‘Because I’ve seen pictures of him in London and I’ve also seen his paintings and he looks exactly like one of his self-portraits.’ Serge said, ‘So go and ask him for an autograph then’. Elisabeth Levitsky, a part-time model, was not only beautiful, thus answering Lucien’s strict aesthetic requirements (“Painting has always been inextricably mixed into my sexual life,” he said. It would be simple for someone of Lucien’s musical skills to pick up, easy for him to carry around, and a good way of making some money at weddings and bar mitzvahs. Born in Paris, France, Gainsbourg was the son of Jewish Russian migrants, Joseph Ginsburg (28 December 1898, in Kharkov, Russian Empire now Ukraine—22 April 1971) and Olga (née Bessman; 1894 – 16 March 1985), who fled to Paris after the 1917 Russian Revolution. Serge Gainsbourg, geboortenaam Lucien Ginsburg (Parys, 2 April 1928 - 2 Maart 1991) was 'n Franse digter, sanger, komponis, akteur, regisseur en skilder. 1964 huet hie sech mat der Françoise-Antoinette "Béatrice" Pancrazzi bestuet, mat där en 2 Kanner hat (Natacha a Paul). Lise a eu un deuxième époux, Jean-Marie Grandjouan, le petit-fils de Jules Grandjouan. I think they would have got on very well; they were not dissimilar – both very shy and sweet – and Serge adored Bacon’s paintings.’ He especially adored their power – he had read once that after the opening of one of Bacon’s exhibitions, two men killed themselves. Elle vit une retraite tranquille en Côtes-d'Armor. Il l’épouse le 7 janvier 1964. He found the experience so disgusting that he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, climax, waiting until he was home to take the matter in hand. Lise est fille d'aristocrates russes immigrés. He was right. Levitsky came from Russian aristocratic stock and worked as an assistant to Salvador Dalí’s friend, the poet Georges Hugnet. La première fois, il épouse Élisabeth LEVITSKY en 1951. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Leur histoire se renoue, et par d'heureux hasards ils se retrouvent, notamment en 1968, après la rupture entre Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot. Lucien left the apartment with a Gitane clamped between his lips, a future wife, a firm idea of the ideal in decor, a small black-and-white picture stolen from Dali’s porn collection of two young girls eating each other out, and a reinforced belief that surrealism was the finest artistic movement there ever was. Among them were ‘Les Amours Perdues’ (‘The Lost Loves’) and ‘Défense D’Afficher’ (‘No Bill Stickers’) which would be covered in 1959 by Juliette Gréco and Pia Colombo respectively. I remember when I was in the Orangerie restaurant with Serge and my father and I said ‘There’s Francis Bacon over there’. After their marriage in November 1951, life for Lucien and Elisabeth was starting to get markedly less bohemian. Because he always stayed childlike; that’s what the mischievous attempt to always shock people was all about.”. Dali’s apartment on the Rue De L’Université was left unoccupied while the artist and his wife Gala were back at their home in Spain, and Hugnet had been given a set of keys to keep an eye on the place. Ensuite, il tombe amoureux de Brigitte Bardot, mais leur … Then he became France's sexiest musician ... Elisabeth Levitsky, a … Both were working as teachers, Lucien giving art lessons to the young children of holocaust survivors at the nearby school. Afterwards, little by little, he started to sing his songs himself. And he was quick to adapt what he had learned to his own style – part Django Reinhardt, and a bigger part basic strum. Tovenaar Maître Jedi Enregistré le : mar. Education: Studied painting at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1945-51. But it was always the surrealists that drew him back. ... Hien huet sech 1952 mat der Elisabeth "Lize" Levitsky bestuet, ma 1957 nees scheede gelooss. Après son premier mariage avec Elisabeth Levitsky en 1951, dont il divorcera six ans plus tard, Serge Gainsbourg rencontre Françoise Antoinette Pancrazzi, fille d’un riche industriel qui lui offre un train de vie cossu.Ils se marient le 7 janvier 1964 et donnent naissance à Natacha et Paul.La jalousie maladive de Françoise aura raison de leur union en 1966. La chanson de Gainsbourg Élisa fut, déclare-t-elle, écrite pour elle[3]. Un questionnaire de Proust avec Serge Gainsbourg. Associated Press articles: Copyright © 2016 The Associated Press. Elisabeth worked as secretary to the French surrealist poet Georges Hugnet, a friend of Salvador Dali. He gave me the half of it, which stupidly I’ve lost – it was on a piece of wood, not very thick, thankfully, so it wouldn’t have hurt too much – and it was fairly classical with a rather beautiful, sort of Renoir-ish girl on it. Elisabeth "Lize" Levitsky (t. ... Jane Birkin en Charlotte Gainsbourg by die inwyding van die "Jardin Serge Gainsbourg" in 2010. Über seinen Tod hinaus gilt er in Frankreich als einer der einflussreichsten und kreativsten Singer-Songwriter (französisch auteur-compositeur-interprète) seiner Epoche. Now that he was away from home, he had plucked up the courage to croon along on his repertoire of French and American standards, Gershwin and Cole Porter, Charles Aznavour and Leo Ferré. But the 12 months passed quickly and, despite his protestations that he had tired of the never-ending competition – who could fart the loudest, drink the most, tell the the filthiest jokes – and that the promiscuity there depressed him, it was almost with reluctance that he took off his uniform and left the universe of men to go back home. Ils se marient le 3 novembre 1951 à la mairie du Mesnil-le-Roi. Whereas in the past they had lived in hotel rooms, at one time finding the celebrated French singer Leo Ferré their temporary next-door neighbour, at another sleeping in the very same room where Verlaine had fucked Rimbaud, they were now settled into an apartment in the Maison Des Réfugies Israelites. Finally his marriage followed suit. In 1957, after his third summer in a row in the Club De La Fôret in Le Touquet, Elisabeth filed for divorce. “I’ve always had an eye”), she was also more sexually forthcoming than La Tolstoy (of which, more later). He passed, graduating to playing summer seasons at the smart Northern coastal resort of Le Touquet. He couldn’t remember his own words because they were so clever, so he wrote them down on a piece of paper, and when his hands would shake so much in front of the chic nightclub audiences he would roll the paper up into a little ball and chuck it at them and they’d burst into applause. In 1951, aged 23, he married fellow bohemian art student Elisabeth Levitsky. Serge Gainsbourg (tên thật là Lucien Ginsburg, sinh ngày 2 tháng 4 năm 1928, mất ngày 2 tháng 3 năm 1991) là nhạc sĩ, ca sĩ, nghệ sĩ dương cầm, đạo diễn, nhà biên kịch và diễn viên người Pháp. Le 17 avril 2010, elle est l'invitée des émissions Vivement Dimanche et On n'est pas couché. April 1928 als Lucien Ginsburg in Paris; 2. Sorti le {{Date}}, l'opus s'écoule à 400000 exemplaires et sera le dernier témoignage artistique de Serge Gainsbourg, qui disparaîtra neuf mois après la sortie du disque. SALON ® is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com, LLC. In addition to his natural shyness and timidity was an added element of guilt from having cadged the money from his unsuspecting mother. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 15 juillet 2020 à 22:29. He has an older sister, Jacqueline Ginsburg, his twin sister, Liliane, and their parents, who escaped czarist Russia in 1919. Serge Gainsbourg (de 1951 à 1957 modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata Élisabeth Levitsky ou Lise Levitzky , née le 5 mars 1926 , à Pau , est une peintre française d'origine russe . Fils d'immigrants russes juifs, le jeune Serge GAINSBOURG de confession Juive connaîtra les terribles moments de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, devant porter la fameuse étoile jaune. (Although his decision to quit high school had horrified Olia, who saw her darling boy’s future as a doctor or lawyer at the very least, it appeared to have stirred some latent painterly gene in Joseph.) Abrëll 1928 zu Paräis a gestuerwen och do den 2. Excerpted from "Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes". “He thought it was a loser’s name,” said Jane. So his vengeance later was to have the most beautiful girls in France.”. Being his father’s stand-in paid more than teaching and painting. The attentions of some of these women infuriated Gainsbourg’s wives. Il se fait appeler Serge, puis choisit le pseudonyme de Gainsbourg, en référence au peintre Thomas Gainsborough. They loved that he would do things other grown-ups would never have dared to do. Elle fut la première épouse de Serge Gainsbourg. Mais c'est sous le nom de Serge Gainsbourg qu'il écrira pour elle Elisa. He’d actually been married twice by the mid-1960s. His performances went over particularly well with the women, who would approach his piano with requests, not all of them musical. Serge Gainsbourg, oikealta nimeltään Lucien Ginsburg (2. huhtikuuta 1928 – 2. maaliskuuta 1991), oli ranskalainen runoilija, laulaja-lauluntekijä, näyttelijä ja ohjaaja.Häntä pidetään yhtenä merkittävimmistä ranskalaisista muusikoista ja lauluntekijöistä. Chansonnier, Charismatiker, unbeugsamer Provokateur und Skandal-Nudel, Maler, Autor, Schauspieler, Komponist und Sänger; obwohl Serge Gainsbourg am 2. Vingt-sept ans après sa mort, Serge Gainsbourg est toujours bien vivant dans la mémoire des Français. Gainsbourg was born at the Hoôtel Dieu hospital in Paris, along with his twin sister Liliane, on April 2, 1928. 11-jul-2017 - Bekijk het bord 'SERGE GAINSBOURG' van Anais DUNCAN, dat wordt gevolgd door 1160 personen op Pinterest. Serge was not a modest man, therefore he didn’t want to be a second class painter; he wanted to be a first-class songwriter.”. En février 1966, après un deuxième divorce, il s’installe à la Cité internationale des Arts, dans une chambre d’étudi… Mais leur amour se défait encore, même s'il est probable que leur relation ait ponctuellement et discrètement perduré. En 1990, Serge Gainsbourg écrit les paroles du {{2e}} album de Vanessa Paradis, Variations sur le même t'aime, sur des musiques de Franck Langolff, dont le tube Tandem. How Serge Gainsbourg became Serge Gainsbourg In 1945, he was a shy French virgin named Lucien mocked by prostitutes. “Well he was old enough.” Seventeen, but looking years younger, with not even the merest hint that he might one day need to shave. 2006, 03:34 Localisation : De Tovenarij. Like every other 20-year-old Frenchman, Lucien had to perform 12 months of compulsory military service. But his first name was the one he was happiest to lose. “I never felt right in my name,” he said. His birth name was Lucien Ginsburg. In the year that had gone by since he’d switched his studies to painting from architecture (his original choice of a professionally oriented course might well have been a sop to his mother’s future expectations for her only son) he had been experimenting in all kinds of movements – from figurative to impressionist to cubist and back again – in search of a style that fitted. En vous remerciant cordialement Thomas. Retour sur ses idylles dans le doc diffusé vendredi 19 mai 2017 sur France 3, à 20 h 55. But he had to be the best, and with painting he knew what was the best and that wasn’t it. Re: SERGE GAINSBOURG FRANC JEUX REVUE. That the bohemian artist she had married now wore a sharp suit and no longer touched a paintbrush would probably not have been recognized by the French courts of the time as legitimate grounds for divorce. Doubtless there was still baggage too left over from the days when to have a Jewish name meant trouble. März 1991 ebenda) war ein französischer Chansonnier, Filmschauspieler, Komponist und Schriftsteller. Before he could get anywhere as a serious songwriter, he concluded, Lucien – and Lulu – must die. En 1951, Serge Gainsbourg se marie à Élisabeth Levitsky, fille d’aristocrates russes émigrés, avec qui il restera jusqu’en 195766. As he was filling in the registration form at SACEM, Lucien decided he would change his name. La première fois en 1951 avec Élisabeth Levitsky. His parents, Joseph and Olia Ginsburg, were Jewish immigrants who had fled the Ukraine around the time of the Russian Revolution. All rights reserved. “My great regret,” he said, “was not having lived during that time” – the 1920s, when the literary-artistic movement led by poet André Breton flourished in France’s capital. Message par Tovenaar » mar. https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lise_Levitzky&oldid=172944410, Personnalité française née d'un parent russe, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Peinture, Portail:Biographie/Articles liés/Culture et arts, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence. Son père s'est engagé dans la Waffen SS afin de combattre les communistes pour pouvoir récupérer ses propriétés privées confisquées[1]. And these jobs were somewhat more upmarket than the wedding-and-bar-mitzvah circuit he had played prior to doing military service – piano-playing gigs in Parisian bars and nightclubs that Joseph had taken on to do himself, only to find he had double-booked himself elsewhere. “He said it reminded him of hairdressers – they were always called Lucien. The art teaching had long since fallen victim to Lucien’s new way of life, as had his painting. He appeared arrogant, but it was because he was really so terribly shy.”. Elisabeth Levitsky and Serge Gainsbourg were married for 6 years. “Being a bar-pianist,” he said, “is the best education” – musically, sexually and alcoholically. With Joseph acting as unpaid agent, Lucien was set up on the party circuit, which he continued to play until, in the day in 1948 when the postman arrived at Avenue Bugeaud – the Ginsburg family’s latest apartment in the far more salubrious 16th arondissement – with a letter from the French government ordering him into the army. He would perform on the guitar for his fellow recruits, making up dirty songs as he went along. L'histoire veut que l'opposition entre leurs deux familles, et leur passion commune pour la peinture, les rapprochent ; ils échangent des lettres romantiques enflammées lors du service militaire de Lucien. Il s’est aussi inscrit dans une école de musique afin d’approfondir ses connaissances en matière de solfège. Leur fille Natacha est baptisée le 8 août 1964. There were plenty of beautiful women at the École Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, the prestigious art school in which his father had enrolled him. In the summer of 1954, Lucien registered the first six songs he had written – “sophisticated, cynical songs mostly, about not being loved, that he didn’t dare to sing himself,” said Jane. If Lucien was slow on the uptake – by his own words a ‘late starter’, guaranteed by an almost puritanical attitude towards his body and a firm conviction of his ugliness – by 1947, two years into his studies, he had found a personne interposée that he didn’t have to pay. Il détruit la majorité de ses toiles, rompt avec Elisabeth Levitsky et tourne définitivement le dos à la peinture. A short spell in the cooler was the result. Le couple s'installe à Paris, mais Lucien s'éloigne de la peinture et leur amour libre prend l'eau. “He learnt to drink in the army. Serge GAINSBOURG, auteur-compositeur-interprète et cinéaste français, fils de Joseph GINSBURG et Olia BESMAN, naquit le 2 avril 1928 à Paris, , , , , et mort le 2 mars 1991 à Paris, , , , , à l’âge de 62 ans. Elisabeth was also playing an increasingly prominent role in his life. Copyright © 2019 Salon.com, LLC. The two women – Gréco the strikingly beautiful existentialist vamp, with her white face, black hair, heavy eye make-up, and big black, beatnik sweater and tapered pants; Colombo less successful but with the same sense of Left Bank cool – came out of the Rive Gauche scene which had sprung up, after Paris was liberated from the Germans, around the cellar nightclubs in Saint-Germain-des-Près to become the centrepoint of the post-war spirit of freedom and creativity. Excerpted from "Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes" (new expanded edition) by Sylvie Simmons, available exclusively on Kindle at Amazon.com. De Serge Gainsbourg, mam richtegen Numm Lucien Ginsburg, gebuer den 2. Élisabeth Levitsky When Joseph’s lectures on fiscal responsibility and digs about having a gigolo for a son failed to have the desired effect, he hit on a more practical solution: he would hire a gypsy guitar player to teach his son to play guitar. Il s'est marié 2 fois. C’est le 2 avril 1928 à Paris que naîtra Lucien GINSBURG, plus connu sous le nom de Serge GAINSBOURG, artiste complet, qui mourra le 2 Mars 1991 à Paris. “I think the thing he admired most was painting. Biographie. Actor, Entertainer. “I went into the French army having never touched a drop of alcohol in my life,” he would later claim, “and I left 13 months later, an alcoholic.”. Il rencontre ensuite Françoise-Antoinette Pancrazzi, née à Bône en Algérie, le 28 juillet 1931, dite Béatrice (appelée princesse Galitzine, depuis son premier mariage avec le prince Georges Galitzine). Serge Gainsbourg [gɛzˈbur] (* 2. 11 avr. Serge Gainsbourg, l'homme à la tête de chou était un cœur d'artichaut. “It was a boarding school,” said Jane, “and some of them couldn’t go home, and he knew conjuring tricks and would make them all sing. 17 nov. 2020, 17:04. Joseph Ginsburg was a classically trained musician whose profession was playing the piano in cabarets and casinos; he taught his children—Gainsbourg and his twin sister Liliane—to play the piano. Serge Gainsbourg was like putting on a suit of armor. Apart from anything else, she was keeping him – a fact which infuriated his father. Serge Gainsbourg Charlotte Gainsbourg színésznő apja, aki a Jane Birkin színésznő-énekesnővel kötött házasságából született. Joseph was a talented pianist in theaters and clubs in Paris, well-versed in both classical music such as Chopin and American pop composers such as Cole Porter and George Gershwin. And yet there was something about paying for sex that appealed to Lucien and over the coming years he would continue to visit prostitutes, claiming to have had an affectionate relationship with several, even if only one of them had ever told him he was any good. He was like the Pied Piper – the children followed him everywhere. His reason for giving up painting, he told Rock & Folk magazine, was “I wanted to have an artistic genius, and all I had was talent.” Said Jane, “He was a rather sweet painter, but he wanted to be avant-garde. He adored Gréco, and was terrified of her too; in his early days of playing nightclubs he had spotted her in the audience but couldn’t get the courage to approach her. “Serge was the only person I’ve ever known who liked the service militaire,” said Jane. He taught his son and daughter piano, begin… The reason cited on her application to dissolve the marriage was Lucien’s adultery (in particular with an unnamed Englishwoman, the wife of a wealthy sweets manufacturer). About. (AP/Heckly/Michel Lipchitz/Photo montage by Salon), ------------------------------------------. So it did not take much persuasion on his father’s part for him to agree to sit the exam to join SACEM – the French songwriters’ society – in 1954, the same year that his twin Liliane married and moved to Casablanca and became an English teacher. Au printemps 1947, Serge rencontre Elisabeth Levitsky… Au printemps 1947, toujours à l’académie Léger, Serge rencontre celle qui deviendra sa première femme en 1951, Elisabeth Levitsky, une liaison qui devient plus sérieuse en octobre de la même année. . La carrière de chanteuse de Bambou n’aura jamais décollé malgré l’aura de son mari. Haut. But this wasn’t enough to stop the workaholic Joseph to continue to come to him with offers of jobs as a musician. In 1947, while continuing at Beaux-Arts, Lucien also enrolled in a simultaneous one-year course at music school to study composition, notation and theory – suggesting that even at this point he had some intuition that painting might not be the all-encompassing existence he had declared that it was. People were always mispronouncing or misspelling Ginsburg – as they had done since Joseph had become a naturalized Frenchman. 6 years later they divorced on 9th Oct 1957. ‘He said if he couldn’t be Francis Bacon he’d tear up his stuff. He gave me a 100F note, and I went up to his table and said ‘Are you Francis Bacon?’ and he said he was and very sweetly wrote his autograph for Serge. Ông được coi là một trong những nhạc sĩ cận đại tiêu biểu nhất của nước Pháp.Ngoài ra, … Began musi… He was very frightened. And although he later claimed he had never found his style as a painter, surrealism, with its surprise, shock and exaggeration, would have a major influence on his music. Although his attempts at an affair with an 18-year-old Russian aristocrat classmate – Olga Tolstoy, granddaughter of the celebrated writer – had ended in dismal failure, Lucien somehow found the confidence to approach another Russian aristocrat who was two years older than him (the same age difference that separated Joseph and the older Olia). Lucien loved the passionate, melancholic music the gypsy played, which had a good deal in common, he felt, with Slavic and Jewish music. He’d tried calling her office once in the hope she would sing a song of his, but he was given the brush-off; he was just another unknown. Dans Serge Gainsbourg : vie héroïque (2010) de Joann Sfar, son personnage est interprété par Deborah Grall. Lucien Ginsburg was this shy Jewish refugee who thought he was ugly and who the prostitutes used to scream at because he looked so young. Bekijk meer ideeën over Jane birkin, Serge gainsbourg, Birkin. Born Lucien Ginsburg in Paris in 1928. modifier - modifier le code - modifier Wikidata. Ils divorcent en 1957[2]. In 1945, the same year that he declared his intention to devote his life to art, Lucien lost his virginity. Il s'appelait encore Lucien Ginzburg lorsqu'il la rencontra en 1947. “They mocked him,” said Jane, “and he suffered terribly from that. Alighting the metro at Barbès, he set off nervously to look for a prostitute. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Et c’est comme ça qu’il fait la connaissance d’Elisabeth Levitsky, la fille d’un aristocrate russe qu’il ne quitte plus. When he started writing songs and performing in clubs, Lucien Ginsburg changed his name to Serge Gainsbourg… Born Luden Ginsburg on April 2, 1928, in Paris, France; died of a heart attack on March 2, 1991, in Paris, France; son of Joseph (a musician) and Olia (Besman) Ginsburg; married Elisabeth Levitsky (a secretary and model), 1951; divorced, 1957; married Beatrice Pancrazzi, 1964; children: Natacha, Paul (with Pancrazzi); Charlotte (with actress and singer Jane Birkin); Lucien (with Bambou, his companion before death). De son deuxième mariage avec Françoise-Antoinette Pancrazzi, naissent Natacha en 1964 et Paul, dit Vania en 1967. En 1958, Serge Gainsbourg efface définitivement Lucien Ginsburg. “The first ones he approached laughed at him and told to come back when he was old enough,” said Jane. They dated for 11 months after getting together in 1950 and married on 3rd Dec 1950. 1/7 - Elisabeth Levitsky, première épouse du chanteur.