Françoise Hardy: all the melancholy

Shis nails are flawless. She puts her thin laptop on the coffee table in the office. In one of the rooms of the publishing house, seated face to face, we listen to the notes of “L’Amitié” coming out of the small metallic rectangle. The song dates from 1965. It is Marie-Dominique Lelièvre’s favorite. Françoise Hardy’s voice suddenly fills the room with a dark clarity. “As we don’t know what life gives us / It may be that in my turn I am no longer a person / If I have a friend left who really understands me / I will forget both my tears and my sadness. » Marie-Dominique Lelièvre has listened to the songs of Françoise Hardy since childhood. She does it happily and cautiously. Their graceful melancholy can cover the strikes of our lives. The last time he…