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Serge Gainsbourg: A Rake's Progress

Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 2001

IF YOU WALK into the Montparnasse cemetery, the first thing you see is the enormous stone double bed where Charles Pigeon – the inventor of the unexplodable gas lamp – perpetually contemplates mounting his sleeping wife.

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