She was the last companion of Serge Gainsbourg. In the columns of “Libération” this Thursday, December 5, 2024, Caroline Elisabeth Paulus, known as Bambou, spoke about her Parisian home that the icon gave her and which she still occupies. In these places, the famous singer wanted her to raise their son Lucien there in complete peace of mind.
Serge Gainsbourg gave Bambou a priceless gift in a popular neighborhood of Paris and she never let go
Long discreet since the death of , her famous ex-lover and pygmalion, Caroline Elisabeth Paulus, known as Bambou, decided to evoke in complete transparency her incredible journey via her book Step by step through the night, published in November. Remember that the person concerned, marked by an eventful childhood, met the famous singer in the 80s, when she was only 18 years old. As for Serge Gainsbourg, with , he was already over fifty. Although they live a relationship that is both passionate and tumultuous, they nonetheless remain a support for each other, calming together their “various pains“.
In 1986, Bambou motivated her to stop using drugs. Until this happened in 1991, Bambou shared her daily life which she mentioned during an interview given to Liberation this Thursday, December 5, 2024. Obviously, the interpreter of I love you neither would have liked to marry her, something that Bambou would always have refused, not seeing the point. However, we wanted to offer him a most symbolic gift: a house nestled in the 13th arrondissement of Paris “a stone’s throw from Chinatown“ For . A home that is dear to her and that she has never left…
Bambou with an open heart about his most discreet daily life
In these places, Bambou now lives alone. His son Lucien, who is thriving in the music industry to this day, took off many years ago. “I passed on values and principles to him“, she stressed to our colleagues. “In fact, Serge was very strict. He wanted Lulu to be well-mannered, polite, respectful. I feel like I’ve arrived there. But it’s been a full-time job“. Bambou knows this Parisian district of the 13th like the back of his hand. During his youth, the interpreter of Tell me that love was already walking along certain now familiar alleys. Some of her sisters that she met even ran restaurants there…
A child of the DDASS, Bambou lived in Morvan with a host family who did not treat her well. Being the daughter of a German legionnaire and a Chinese princess who took refuge in Vietnam, the latter was only 13 years old when her father finally decided to take her six children back with her. Due to their conflicting relationship, Serge’s former muse quickly took refuge in drugs. But clearly, she has managed to make a clean sweep of the past. The proof is that despite his traumatic memories, Bambou saw his mother suffering from Alzheimer’s in addition to his father living in the Landes.as an azimuthal hermit“.
