“How do I say goodbye to him? » Françoise Hardy, icon of the sixties and figure of French song with an international aura, died at the age of 80. His son Thomas Dutronc announced his death this Tuesday evening on his social networks. “Mom is gone,” he wrote, with a photo of himself as a child, with his mother.
Many cultural and musical personalities have paid tribute to this melancholy poet. “How do I say goodbye to him? » tweeted Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, hailing a “legend of French song”. “Enormous sadness. She inspired me a lot…”, wrote Michel Polnareff, while Carla Bruni accompanied a photo of the singer with a “Hello sadness. Rest in peace…”, on Instagram.
” Give me your hand “
“French icon, singular voice with fierce tranquility, Françoise Hardy will have rocked generations of French people for whom she will remain anchored in moments of life. For me, it’s my whole childhood,” said written on French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
Étienne Daho, to whom she was very close, simply wrote his first name in capital letters accompanied by a photo dating from the 1960s, in black and white.
Tim Burgess, British singer (The Charlatans), Michel Denisot, Michel Field, director of culture and live entertainment at France Télévisions, Nagui all wrote him a last word. “Françoise Hardy is leaving us. Pop is dead. We, the kids of the sixties, we all had the great Françoise in our hearts…”, reacts the famous music critic Philippe Manoeuvre.
The filmmaker François Ozon writes to him a final word onin reference to his song The wide : “Françoise… “Everything will be far away, give me your hand, there in the end when I set sail…” RIP”.