Françoise Hardy passed away on June 11, 2024, at the age of 80. She died at the American Hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine, “where she has undergone 55 chemotherapies since 2015“, as our colleagues from Paris Match. She suffered from two cancers: a first of the lymphatic system detected in 2004 and a second of the pharynx since 2019. It had already been several months since Thomas Dutronc’s mother was no longer able to “walk alone“, continues the magazine.
“She only uses a wheelchair to get to medical appointments and has lost more than 20 kilos.“Eating had also become very difficult for the interpreter of Message Personnel. Before being transferred to the previously mentioned establishment, she had been very disappointed.to see her Japanese bed that she loved so much being replaced by a medical bed“, at her home in Paris.
Jacques Dutronc at his bedside
The days preceding her death, she spent them in the company of her son, but also of his famous father Jacques Dutronc, who expressly left Corsica, with his companion Sylvie Duval, to spend his last moments with the one who will remain his wife forever: “Every day for a week, hiding his misty gaze behind his sunglasses, he sits next to her.” Françoise Hardy would have given him one last smile, as a farewell.
Note that after his death, Jacques and Thomas Dutronc obviously paid tribute to him through a ceremony last Thursday at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Since then, the interpreter of I like girls returned to the Isle of Beauty, he who also lives in a house originally belonging to Françoise Hardy. He would have taken it upon himself to buy a concession, “in front of the sea” in which the urn containing the ashes of his wife could be placed during a final ceremony at the beginning of July. This was revealed Paris Match in another article.
May Françoise Hardy rest in peace…
