When Jane Birkin died in July 2023 at the age of 76, Marisa Meltzer knew exactly what her next project would be. Soon after, the author, a self-proclaimed Francophile who was born on Bastille Day, ...

“She was pretty open about not having any [plastic surgery], which you could see,” says Meltzer. “She looked like someone who had lived a good life and smoke and drank and spent a lot of time in the ...