Françoise Hardy has left us. The 80-year-old singer passed away this Tuesday, June 11, 2024, leaving an entire country, many fans and her son Thomas orphans. These are years of suffering which are finally ending for the one who campaigned more than ever in favor of euthanasia and the right to die with dignity. Cancer having made her life impossible, Françoise Hardy never stopped talking about the terrible physical and painful consequences of the treatments she underwent to make things happen. Her disappearance saddened an entire public but also the many people who had the chance to know her, from afar and up close, like Jaques Dutronc, whose life she shared and to whom she remained married until at the end.
From 1967, Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc began an intense love affair. Six years later, they became parents of Thomas, born June 16, 1973, then married March 30, 1981 in Monticello in Haute-Corse. If everything seemed rosy for the singer and the rocker, the reality was sometimes quite different and even very hard to live with, as she confided during an interview with Paris Match in 2021.
Pained by her husband’s multiple adventures with other women, the singer of the title How to say goodbye to you revealed how she gave in to temptation with another. “I ended up breaking away from him thanks to an encounter“she confided, regretting at the time.”to be part of the furniture“in her relationship with Jacques Dutronc.”I talked to him about it and I saw him suffer and be desperate. This is how I noticed (…) that making others suffer was almost worse than the opposite.” she confided, nevertheless evoking the “great love” that she felt for the artist.
Jacques Dutronc destroyed by this relationship
According to her, this adulterous affair would have had “a devastating effect” on Jacques Dutronc. Moreover at the time, the singer had also just weaned himself from alcohol on which he was very dependent. Until then very present and caring for him, Françoise Hardy suddenly and brutally detached from her husband, tired of his lack of attention and tenderness towards her.When I walked away, I saw the harm I was doing to him. I told him, without believing it at all, you know, one day, all this will make me neither hot nor cold. And that’s exactly what happened. One fine day, it was over. And, there, he had a hard time” she told the magazine’s journalists She.
Despite these painful years, the singer has many good memories of Jaques Dutronc (from whom she never divorced): “Despite all these difficulties inherent to being in love, the years I lived with him between 1974 and 1988 were the most beautiful of my life.” she explained. “It’s partly down to him, but also to our son Thomas“.
