his son Thomas Dutronc absent at the time of his death, the reason revealed

Update June 27, 2024 at 3:08 p.m.

Published on June 27, 2024 at 2:28 p.m. par Sharleen McAleavy

Thomas Dutronc remained at the bedside of his mother, Françoise Hardy, until the end. Well almost. In fact, the singer did not want her son to be there on the day of his death.

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During the last years of his life, Françoise Hardy was becoming more and more discreet in the media. It was therefore her son, Thomas Dutronc, who was in charge of providing news of his mother and her state of health as it worsened. However, the singer had one last wish concerning her son, and not the least.

She received a visit from Jacques Dutronc shortly before her death

Some of Françoise Hardy’s neighbors have expressed their views in the columns of Parisianafter his death, describing a woman “very friendly, adorable with the neighbors. She was simple, she gave compliments“. According to one of her neighbors, one of Françoise Hardy’s two lifelong loves, the singer Jacques Dutronc, came to visit her only two weeks before her death, while he was living in Corsica. She explains that “it was not a good sign“. The two singers remained on very good terms despite their separation in the 1980s. They never divorced.

Françoise Hardy did not want her son to be present

On June 11, 2024, Françoise Hardy died in hospital, surrounded by her niece and her former press secretary, but not by her only son. According to Paris Matchwhich retraces the last days of the iconic singer of the sixties, Françoise Hardy did not want her son to be present to see her die. Feeling the end approaching, she was hospitalized the day before her death, and wanted to be surrounded by her loved ones, but not all of them.

She expressly asked the nursing staff that her ex-partner, Jacques Dutronc, and her son Thomas, be the last to know of his disappearance. She would also have asked her son not to cancel anything for her, and to continue working. This is why the singer was in the provinces at the time of his mother’s death, and why he maintained his concert despite everything, paying tribute to the last wishes of the one he loved so much.

Sources used:

The Parisian / Paris-Match