The funeral of the singer, who died at the age of 80 last Tuesday, will take place in Paris this Thursday.
A final farewell to Francoise Hardy. The funeral of the singer, who died at the age of 80 last Tuesday, takes place this Thursday afternoon, in Paris, where she lived and where she died. “We will meet in the Dome room of the crematorium of the Père-Lachaise cemetery from 3 p.m.,” wrote in the Figaro notebook, Jacques Dutronc, her husband from whom she was separated – but not divorced, and their son Thomas. It was the latter who announced the death of his mother, in an Instagram publication, with these simple words: “Mom is gone.”
Little information has filtered out about the funeral of Françoise Hardy, who, faithful to her usual discretion, did not want large national tributes. The singer had in fact expressed the wish to be “cremated in privacy and without religious ceremony”, in Corsica, explains the weekly Paris Match. More precisely in Monticello, where Jacques Dutronc lives and where she also owned a house.
After the death of Françoise Hardy, it was suggested that the artist’s ashes would be spread there. But, according to the town hall of the Corsican town, interviewed by AFP, no request for burial of the ashes in the cemetery had been made at the start of the week. More information on the singer’s final resting place, which could therefore be a private residence, could be communicated in the coming hours.