Singer and 1960s icon Françoise Hardy, who had a successful decades-long career, had been a star couple with singer and songwriter Jacques Dutronc. The two lovebirds fell in love in 1967. From this union was born the no less famous Thomas Dutronc in 1973. But the interpreter of Time of Love had known a remarkable, albeit laborious, relationship with the photographer Jean-Marie Perier…
During an interview for Paris Match in March 2021, the singer suffering from cancer, returned to this past love, which did not escape moments of pain and suffering: “I was expressing my frustration at being permanently separated from Jean-Marie, she explains to Paris Match magazine. Our respective professional activities required us to travel all the time, and it seems to me that I did not stop crying during the four years of our relationship. With him, I experienced this devastating impression of being a kind of warrior’s rest while we dreamed of passionate physical rapprochements.“
This did not prevent the former cult photographer of the yé-yés years from remaining very close to the star of the song. He has also today renounced women as he explained in his autobiographical book: “Let’s first say that I was quite spoiled. I even loved several women forever.”