Saturday March 20, 2021, Michel Denisot received on his show Icons sure Europe 1, Francoise Hardy. From her career to her love life, the singer spoke about her journey as a woman and artist that marked an entire generation. A success and texts that she certainly owes to her "sentimental life quite painful." "My best songs are really autobiographical, they start from the bottom of what I had in my heart of pain and frustration", she declared.
Impossible then for the journalist not to question him about his love affair with Jacques Dutronc. A relationship that lasted twenty years after love at first sight. From this romance was born their son Thomas Dutronc, June 16, 1973, but also beautiful texts: "It is the greatest number of my songs". Among them, the titles It's getting late, "a beautiful melody that I am proud to have composed", See you in another life or Nobody else. So many pieces written in collaboration with Michel Berger which were his cries of love to Jacques Dutronc. The artist then spoke about his opus Intermission : "I made a whole album thinking of him and hoping to make him jealous". Before continuing: "I was telling about a meeting with someone, with whom there was something going on, because we were tired of being a piece of furniture for the other." It remains to be seen if the singer was indeed jealous …
Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc, separated but not divorced
Separated since the 90s, the couple have not yet divorced, as Jacques Dutronc has found love in the arms of Sylvie Duval. Despite this rupture, François Hardy continues to tell his story with the father of his son in song. "Until recently, in my last recordings. For example, there is an album called nobody else, but it is also the title of a song, of which I wrote the text and the text sums up my story with Jacques. In the previous album, there was a song called Rendez-vous in another life. And the rendezvous, I am addressing Jacques. "
This is not the first time that the yéyé icon has confided in her love affairs. In the columns of Paris Match March 18, 2021, she made a beautiful declaration of love to the men in her life. "I just wish my big Tom would remember me as a mom who loved him", she began, addressing her son. Before continuing: "Jacques knows that he was, that he is the man of my life and vice versa". An unwavering bond that manifested itself when she was hospitalized and then plunged into a long coma in 2015. "It had upset him to the point of telling the person who lived with him that I was the woman of his life", she said. Before concluding with tender words: "It was mutual. He is the man of my life and we lived together our best years".
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