The icon of the yéyé years, Françoise Hardy, died at the age of 80 this Tuesday, June 11, 2024. The opportunity to return to the legendary couple that she formed for many years with the singer Jacques Dutronc from whom she separated in the 90s. A separation which never resulted in a divorce. Explanations.
It is a new French icon that we lost this Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Less than a year after the death of Jane Birkin in July 2023, it is the turn of Françoise Hardy to leave us after a long fight against illness . Diagnosed with MALT lymphoma cancer in 2004, she then had to face pharyngeal cancer in 2019, a terrible ordeal that she wanted to see end quickly as she confided to Paris Match last December: “ I want to leave soon and quickly, without too many hardships, such as the impossibility of breathing “.
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A complicated illness to live with and accept, whether for his son Thomas Dutronc, but also for his former partner who will forever remain the love of his life, Jacques Dutronc. It was at the end of the 60s that Françoise Hardy became a couple with the singer and guitarist, they remained together for more than two decades before separating in the 90s. However, despite everything, the ex-lovers did not never divorced even though Jacques Dutronc had rebuilt his life.
Françoise Hardy: her relationship with Jacques Dutronc
The interpreter of All the boys and girls lived a passionate story with the singer Jacques Dutronc even though at the start nothing suggested it: “One day, I saw a terrible boy, who had glasses with very thick myopic lenses and who, what’s more, was full of pimples. So, I barely paid attention to him! I found him when I was performing, I was looking for a guitarist. This was before he sang.» She confided toParisianin 2016 about the one who will become her husband.
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Their son, Thomas Dutronc, was born from this story in 1973 when they were not yet married. If it was in 1981 that the two celebrities said yes to each other, it was above all for “tax and notarial reasons” after one “health alert» as Françoise Hardy revealed in an interview: “A lawyer explained to me that it was in our both interest to get married, because if anything happened to me, from one day to the next Jacques would no longer be at home in this house where we lived in the 16th.» Finally the legendary couple separated in 1991 after stories of infidelity and suffering, but who never succeeded in breaking their bonds.
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Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc: a refusal to divorce
Three years ago in an interview with Paris Match
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