Relatives and admirers of the moving interpreter of How to say goodbye to you will be able to pay tribute to the singer at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Thursday June 20, from 3 p.m.
Relatives and admirers will come to say goodbye on Thursday at the Père-Lachaise cemetery to Françoise Hardy, who died at the age of 80, before perhaps being buried in Corsica, where the man with whom she formed a legendary couple, Jacques Dutronc, lives. “We will meet in the Dome room of the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery (…) from 3 p.m.”wrote in the notebook of Figaro Jacques Dutronc, her husband from whom she had been separated but not divorced for years, and their son Thomas.
Also a musician, it was he who announced the death of the yéyé idol, performer of hits like All the boys and girls Or How to say goodbye to you, subsequently reproduced in English. Under a photo of him and his mother, Thomas Dutronc wrote a sober “Mom is gone”, on the evening of June 11 on social networks. Two days later, he returned to the stage during a poignant concert in Pas-de-Calais. “In England they say “Elephant in the room” (the huge subject that we avoid talking about, Editor’s note). (…) We cannot translate into French but, for me, my “Elephant in the room”it’s my mother’s departure to other skies”he said modestly, in front of an emotional audience.
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The singer of How to say goodbye to you had expressed the wish to be “cremated in privacy and without religious ceremony” in Corsica, 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.
An emblematic figure of the sixties with an evanescent voice, Françoise Hardy had been waging 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 “leave soon and quickly, without too many challenges, such as the impossibility of breathing”. She 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 singer, with her beautiful melancholy, conquered the Anglo-Saxon public in the 60s, catching the eye of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. She was also the only Frenchwoman in the American magazine’s ranking of the 200 best singers of all time. Rolling Stone in 2023.
