abc.net.au/news/jane-birkin-dead-aged-76/102608552The actress was the namesake for the now iconic Birkin bag, which can sell for more than $200,000Le Parisien newspaper and BFM television reported she had been found dead at her home, citing people close to her."This departure is so sad. She was a beautiful person," former Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot told BFM.
"Because she embodied freedom, because she sang the most beautiful words of our language, Jane Birkin was a French icon," he wrote on Twitter."She bequeaths us tunes and images that will never leave us.""Through her music and her talent, she has transcended the generations," Ms Borne wrote.