Françoise Hardy, whose elegance and beautifully lilting voice made her one of France’s most successful pop stars, has died aged 80. Her death was reported by her son, the fellow musician Thomas Dutronc. “Maman est partie,” (or in English, “mum is gone”) he wrote on Instagram alongside a baby photo of himself and Hardy. Hardy had lymphatic cancer since 2004, and had undergone years’ of radiotherapy and other treatments for the illness. In 2015, she was briefly placed in an induced coma after her condition worsened, and had issues with speech, swallowing and respiration in the years since. In 2021,...
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