“It never happened to me”: Thomas Dutronc evokes this great first since the death of Françoise Hardy

The death of his mother, Françoise Hardy, is the tragedy of his life. At the microphone of France Bleu, Thomas Dutronc spoke about this first time since the death of the late singer who marked an entire generation of artists.

A few days before the start of summer, Thomas Dutronc lost his motherFrançoise Hardy. It was exactly on June 11 that the musician announced the artist's death on his Instagram account. “Mom is gone”, he soberly wrote in the caption of a photo showing her at his side a few years ago. The interpreter of All the boys and the girls were fighting against illness. Suffering from cancer of the lymphatic system and pharynx, the singer of the yéyé generation deplored suffering from great pain for many years. “Since my 45 radiotherapies, the permanent absence of saliva and the lack of irrigation of the skull and the entire ENT area have made my life a nightmare. My life has become so difficult that sometimes I wish I could leave in my sleep and not wake me up”, had confided the mother of Thomas Dutronc, distraught, in the columns of JDD in July 2022.

Two days after this sad news, and despite the mourning, the son of Jacques Dutronc insisted on performing on the stage of the Jazz Opale Festivalin Neufchâtel-Hardelot. But, once on stage, the emotion was too strong. “There is a lot of emotion among us, I tried to sing two of my mom's songsbut my throat is tight”, he explained to Nice-Morning.

Death of Françoise Hardy: what Thomas Dutronc did for the first time

Guest Sunday, November 24 of the podcast In the retro on France Blue, Thomas Dutronc, who returns with an album entitled It's never too latespoke about the pain of losing his mother, comparing it to an event “cataclysmic”. “All my childhood, she was really very, very close to me… We shared so many moments”, he began by explaining. Then continue: “I have his laughter that resonates within me. All his kindness towards me, his concern… All that means that when we say: 'She's still here', 'You can still talk to her', That’s not true.”

Subsequently, Thomas Dutronc spoke of this great first since the death of Françoise Hardy. “I never cried, that never happened to me”he revealed. “The next day, I go to the beach where I always go in Corsica and there is a dolphin 30 meters away and I see it jump in the air. Obviously, a mathematician will say the probabilities that there will be events like that, which we relate ourselves, in any case to see this dolphin emerge, it was a call to the great mystery of existence. It comforted me.”he concluded. A first time for everything.