Françoise Hardy had several men in her life. Even if we often talk about Jacques Dutronc, the father of his son Thomas, also a singer, the 78-year-old artist had a great story with Jean-Marie Périer. The photographer and son of Henri Salvador shared four years of François Hardy’s life at the time. If they gave each other every chance to make their love last, fate ended up separating them.
The latest issue of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles revealed the content of a letter from Françoise Hardy addressed to Clara Luciani, one of her fans. The interpreter of All the boys and girls talks about their first meeting, the life of an artist, its advantages and disadvantages. One of them concerns the balance between the passion for music and the almost impossible to obtain private life, as she herself experienced with Jean-Marie Périer. This lack of accuracy led her to be one of the most unhappy in her couple.
“The other big problem with the scene is that you’re never at home. And I was very unhappy not to see enough of the man of my life. I was crying all the time” she indicates. So when her manager told her that she was going to have to “spend more on recordings“With the accumulation of contracts, she knew that there was no other way out than breaking up with Jean-Marie Périer.
Her pain after disappointments in love, Françoise Hardy expressed it through music. She was talking to Paris Match last year : “I was expressing my frustration at being permanently separated from Jean-Marie. 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.” A separation which fortunately did not taint their still good relationship years later.