This Friday, May 12, Arte is broadcasting a documentary entitled Françoise Hardy, la discrete. On this occasion, Jacques Dutronc confided in the couple he formed with the ex-star of the time yéyé.
In the documentary François Hardy, the discreetbroadcast this Friday, May 12, the channel art offers to look back on the 50-year career of one of the greatest French singers, now 79 years old. François Hardy has signed around thirty albums. His titles, All the boys and girls in 1962 at Leave anyway in 1988, will remain in the repertoire of French song as hits. Courted by Mick Jagger, the one who was an icon of beauty around the world, has always remained discreet. In 2019, she revealed that she had cancer. “I’m in a really nightmarish state of pain most of the time“, she had revealed on RTL in 2021 admitting to having become deaf in one ear and having stopped singing.
In the documentary Françoise Hardy, the discreetit’s another quiet voice who takes the floor to talk about the mother of his son. Jacques Dutronc agreed to testify and look back on the years spent alongside François Hardy. The two stars of the 70s began a relationship in 1967 and ended up getting married in 1981 in Corsica, which had become the haven of peace for the interpreter of I like girls. In the meantime, they have a son, Thomas, born in 1973. Their story has been tumultuous. But even after their separation, the two artists will remain linked. Besides, the couple will never divorce. In an interview at Paris Match in November 2016, the interpreter of How to say goodbye to you explained that she had never divorced for “tax and notarial reasons“.
A one-sided romantic relationship
In an excerpt from the documentary Françoise Hardy, the discreetunveiled by Tele-LeisureJacques Dutronc recognizes his wrongs and makes his mea culpa. “I didn’t behave very well. But, in fact, I helped her not to be there all the time. Ah, yes, I obsessed her“, he declared before recognizing: “We were good together.” For his part, François Hardy has always claimed to have been madly in love with the father of his son. “All the songs were inspired by him. I was thinking of him while writing all this”, she confided.