In the yé-yé years, Jean-Marie Périer met with great success as a photographer. At the time, he also made THE encounter that would change his life. Indeed, the main interested party falls madly in love with Françoise Hardy as soon as they meet in 1962. Love at first sight is mutual! Many years after their breakup, the two stars still seem as accomplices. In addition, Jean-Marie Périer is full of praise when it comes to evoking the mother of Thomas Dutronc.
In the show D-Day on the waves of RTL, Michel Sardou’s brother-in-law opened up about their relationship like never before. The opportunity for him to make some secrets about his first head-to-head with the singer. “She lived with her mother and sister in a 45 m2 apartment. And I’m sent by its artistic director […] Hop! The door opens. It’s his mother who opens it, but behind I see an apparition. It brought tears to my eyes,” remembered the ex-director.
“There was nothing, everything had to be done…”
Struck by her beauty, Jean-Marie Périer then swore to transform her: “First, she was badly dressed (laughs). There was nothing, everything had to be done. So that drives me crazy, I’m a Pygmalion, all my life I’ve ‘pygmalioned’ someone, man or woman for that matter. But after several years of love, the duo ends up separating. From their story, the biological son of Henri Salvador only keeps good memories.
However, he regrets some of his past actions towards him: “I’m not very proud of myself… I cared too much about her image and not enough about her. She was a young girl who wanted us to walk by the sea, hand in hand. That’s youth, that’s stupidity. But it never changed, I keep seeing her. I will love him until the end”.
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