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Françoise Madeleine Hardy was born on Jan. 17, 1944, in German-occupied Paris in a clinic on the high of the Rue des Martyrs, within the ninth arrondissement, in the course of an air raid. Her mom, Madeleine Hardy, was a bookkeeper, and her father, Étienne Dillard, who was largely absent throughout her childhood, was an already-married industrialist. The class divide between her mom and her sometime-father marked her life, as she made clear in interviews.
She went to a Roman Catholic parochial faculty within the neighborhood and later attended lessons on the Institut d’Études Politiques and the Sorbonne.
But it was the reward of a guitar from her father, after she had acquired her highschool diploma at 16, that proved decisive, she later remembered. She would observe for hours within the kitchen of her mom’s tiny condominium. By age 17, she had landed her first recording contract.
She would later say that her lengthy relationship with Mr. Dutronc, whom she lastly married in 1981, having first met him in 1967, impressed the “sufferings, frustrations, disillusions and profound self-interrogations” that suffused her songs. They separated in 1988.
As her well being declined within the 2000s, after her most cancers analysis, Ms. Hardy turned an outspoken supporter of euthanasia. In 2016, she was positioned in a coma, her medical doctors considering that she would by no means get up. She did, and went on to file one other album, “Personne d’Autre” (“Nobody Else”), which proved to be her final, in 2018.
Her son is her solely speedy survivor.
In his assertion on Wednesday, Mr. Macron described Ms. Hardy as a singer who “with reserved magnificence, virtually shy, didn’t hesitate to put naked, uncooked emotion, in her sentimental ballads.”
“She sang of affection,” he mentioned, “that was dreamed, deceived, wounded.”
