Heartbroken, relatives and admirers of the French singer Françoise Hardy gathered Thursday at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris for the farewell ceremony to one of the last icons of the sixties, who died at the age of 80.
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The artist with his androgynous physique and assumed melancholy conquered the Anglo-Saxon public in the 1960s, catching the eye of Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan. She was also the only Frenchwoman in the ranking of the 200 best singers of all time published by the American magazine Rolling Stone in 2023.
Hundreds of onlookers came to pay tribute to the woman whose hits “All the boys and girls” – which she had written and composed, sold more than two million copies – or “Comment te dire adieu”, her standard of 1968, rocked their adolescence.
“She has marked our lives, from the 1960s to today,” Jean-Charles, a 70-year-old Parisian retiree with a Basque beret on his head, told AFP. “With his texts, we could take the time to settle down and live.”
The singer of “So many beautiful things” had expressed the wish to be “cremated in privacy and without religious ceremony”, according to the weekly Paris Match, and buried in Corsica, more precisely in Monticello, where Jacques Dutronc lives.
The disappearance of Françoise Hardy, who had fought against cancer which appeared in 2004, comes almost a year after that of the French’s favorite Englishwoman, Jane Birkin, another emblematic figure of the sixties who died in July 2023.
