The funeral of Françoise Hardy will take place Thursday at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris

Françoise Hardy, who died after battling cancer that appeared in 2004, had a career of more than 50 years in singing.

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Françoise Hardy at the Saint-Germain-des-Prés church in Paris at the funeral of Alain Bashung, March 20, 2009. (PATRICK KOVARIK / AFP)

The funeral of Françoise Hardy, who died on June 11 at the age of 80, will be organized on Thursday June 20 at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the singer’s family announced on Saturday June 15 in Le Figaro. “We will meet in the Dome room of the Père-Lachaise cemetery crematorium (…) on Thursday June 20 from 3 p.m.”wrote in the daily notebook the singer’s husband, Jacques Dutronc, and their son Thomas.

Françoise Hardy, who died after battling cancer that appeared in 2004, had a career spanning more than 50 years in singing, which made her one of the most admired French artists abroad. “Death is only that of the body, which is of material essence. By dying, the body frees the soul which is of spiritual essence. But the fact remains that the death of the body is a trial considerable and I dread it as much as everyone else”, she confided to AFP.

Icon of the sixties, she was the only French representative in the ranking of the 200 best singers of all time by the American magazine Rolling Stone in 2023. Françoise Hardy’s iconic pieces are in the top trending tracks on Spotify around the world, the music platform highlighted on Friday. All the boys and girls, How to say goodbye to you And The time of love thus appear in the top 3 “Trendy listening titles” in Sweden, Italy, the Netherlands and in the top 5 in Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.


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