An emblematic determine of the sixties with an evanescent voice, Françoise Hardy died on June 11 in Paris. It was her son Thomas Dutronc who introduced her dying with a sober message on a social community: “Mother is gone”.
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Printed on 06/20/2024 10:14
Studying time: 2 min Françoise Hardy, October 30, 2012 on the set of the present “Vivement Dimanche” on France 2. (PHOTOPQR/LE PARISIEN)
Family members and admirers will come to say goodbye this Thursday, June 20 on the Père-Lachaise cemetery to Françoise Hardy, who died on the age of 80 on June 11, earlier than maybe a burial in Corsica, the place the person with whom she fashioned a legendary couple, Jacques, lives. Dutronc.“We are going to meet within the Dome room of the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery (…) from 3 p.m.”wrote within the pocket book of Figaro Jacques Dutronc, her husband from whom she had been separated however not divorced for years, and their son Thomas.
The singer of So many lovely issues had expressed the want to be “cremated in privateness and with out non secular ceremony” in Corsica, based on the weekly Paris Match. Extra exactly in Monticello, the place Jacques Dutronc lives and the place she additionally owned a home. No request for burial of ashes within the cemetery had been made in the beginning of the week, Monticello city corridor mentioned when questioned by AFP. There stays the choice of scattering the ashes in nature or putting the funeral urn on a grave on personal property.
Additionally a musician, it was Thomas Dutronc who introduced the dying of the yéyé idol, performer of hits like All of the girls and boys or Methods to say goodbye to you, subsequently reproduced in English. Beneath a photograph of him and his mom, he wrote a sober “Mother is gone”on the night of June 11 on social networks.
Two days later, he returned to the stage throughout a poignant live performance in Pas-de-Calais. “In England, we are saying ‘elephant within the room’ (the large topic we keep away from speaking regarding, editor’s notice). (…) We can not translate into French however, for me, my ‘elephant within the room’ , it is my mom’s departure in the direction of different skies”, he mentioned modestly, in entrance of an emotional viewers.
An emblematic determine of the sixties with an evanescent voice, Françoise Hardy had been waging a battle towards sickness for a few years. Most cancers appeared in his life in 2004, taking a number of types and inflicting him an ordeal. The artist thus admitted to Paris Match in 2023 that she wished “depart quickly and shortly, with out too many hardships, such because the impossibility of respiratory”. She spoke out for the appropriate to die with dignity and had written a letter to this impact printed on the finish of 2023 in La Tribune Sunday.
The artist, along with his assumed melancholy, conquered the Anglo-Saxon public within the Nineteen Sixties, catching the attention of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. She was additionally the one Frenchwoman within the rating of the 200 finest singers of all time by the American journal Rolling Stone in 2023.
