Relatives or simple admirers are invited to come and say goodbye to Françoise Hardy this Thursday, June 20 at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
“We will meet in the Dome room of the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery from 3 p.m.,” wrote in the Figaro notebook, Jacques Dutronc, her husband from whom she had been separated but not divorced for years, and their son Thomas who announced the death last week with his simple words: “Mom is gone”.
VideoFrançoise Hardy, the iconic yé-yé singer, died at 80
Françoise Hardy, the idol of the yéyés, performer of hits like “All the boys and girls” or “Comment te dire adieu”, or “Times of beautiful things” led a battle against illness for many years. Cancer appeared in his life in 2004, taking several forms and causing him an ordeal. The artist thus admitted to Paris Match in 2023 that she wanted to “leave soon and quickly, without too many challenges, such as the impossibility of breathing”. She also spoke out for the right to die with dignity and wrote a letter to this effect published at the end of 2023 in La Tribune Dimanche.
The one who conquered the Anglo-Saxon public in the 60s, catching the eye of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan, will perhaps then be buried in Corsica. The singer, an emblematic figure of the sixties, had expressed the wish to be “cremated in privacy and without religious ceremony” on the island, according to the weekly Paris Match. More precisely in Monticello, where Jacques Dutronc lives and where she also owned a house. No request for burial of ashes in the cemetery had been made at the start of the week, Monticello town hall said when questioned by AFP. There remains the option of scattering the ashes in nature or placing the funeral urn on a grave on private property.
