Yé-yé singer, fashion muse and author Françoise Hardy spent the final months of her life advocating for the right to die after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Françoise Hardy, the French chanson singer, songwriter, fashion 'It Girl' and darling of the 1960s “yé-yé” French pop movement, has died. She was 80. Her death was announced Tuesday on Instagram by her son, Thomas Dutronc, who wrote, “Maman est partie” — “Mom is gone” in French — without specifying when or where she died. Hardy said in 2004 that she’d been diagnosed with lymphoma.
Hardy first visited Los Angeles in 1968 to record her English-language album “En Anglais” — although she had appeared onscreen at the Cinerama Dome two years earlier in John Frankenheimer's race car movie 'Grand Prix” — but never seemed too concerned with stateside success. It didn't help that she suffered from stage fright.
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