If everyone is familiar with the forty years of love shared by Jacques Dutronc and Françoise Hardy, few people know that the singer was actually first in a relationship with Jean-Marie Périer, a very popular photographer from the magazine. Hi buddiesa classic of the 60s and 70s, especially during the yéyé era.
It is also the photographer who noticed Françoise Hardy, at home, when she was still a teenager. Both then shared more than four years of their life, before the young woman met the future father of her son, Thomas, Jacques Dutronc.
In a cross interview with Nikos Aliagas for the magazine Galathe 82-year-old photographer, has agreed to return to this love of youth, which has “immediately captivated“.”When I meet someone who has crazy talent, I go crazy and crazy with love too, like with Françoise“, he says, while he evokes his great period of Hi buddies with the presenter.
A love that even pushed him to spend a lot of money. “After all, it was I who had the house built in Monticello for Françoise, who was earning a lot of money at the time. And yet, I never lived there with her, but I spent forty years visiting Jacques in this house.“. Indeed, even if their story has long since ended, they are still in contact thanks to… Jacques Dutronc.
Indeed, while at the time he frequented all the celebrities of the yéyé era, he became friends with the singer, whom he describes as “a total madman, with an insolence that [le] avenged all the bullshit in the world. He didn’t look like anyone, he had all the talents and the syndrome of ‘provided you don’t realize it’“. Still friends today, the two men see each other less because they live far from each other but talk to each other “all the time“.
Natural son of Henri Salvador but recognized and brought up all his life by the actor François Périer, the photographer knew the celebrity in 1966, when he brought together the 46 greatest stars of the time to make a group photo, which will later be nicknamed “the photo of the century” and which will appear in the magazine Hi buddiesextremely popular among fans of the yéyé era of the 70s.