Jean-Marie Périer, long-time friend of the couple formed by Françoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc, shared intimate confidences about his friends. A close friend who knows the duo very well and who was even in a relationship with the unforgettable and late interpreter of “My friend the rose”.
It’s been a month since Françoise Hardy left us, at the age of 80 and after having suffered so much from illness. His friend, who was also his companion during his youth, the photographer Jean-Marie Périer, shared intimate confidences with Le Parisien, while he was at the Francofolies in La Rochelle. He returns in particular to the relationship of his great friend with men, and of course, the famous Jacques Dutronc. A tender and frank look at an artist and a woman he admired so much and whom he worked with until the end.
In 1962, Françoise Hardy met Jean-Marie Périer, photographer for Paris Match and Salut les amis. Five years later, the legendary couple between the singer and the interpreter of I love girls is formed but her relationship with the biological son of Henri Salvador does not end and takes the form of a solid friendship. Which allows him to be today a major witness to the history of the legendary duo Hardy-Dutronc and his love stories with boys in general, as he explains to Le Parisien: “Perhaps she wasn’t made for that. It made her write beautiful songs, but it’s still very hard, she didn’t have the guys to match her. I thought too much about her image and not enough. to her… She was an 18 year old kid, what she wanted was for us to go to the lakeside holding hands. It’s stupid.
Jacques Dutronc took years to settle down with Françoise Hardy, cultivating his taste for freedom which was not easy to manage for his wife and mother of their only son Thomas. Jean-Marie Périer tempers the attitude of the man who has become a great accomplice: “Jacques, it’s not his fault, he was 23 years old and had a string of girls sleeping on his stairs. It took him five years to go live with her. But he was always on vacation, on tour, with me… It was hard for the older girl. Meanwhile, she was waiting…”
Jean-Marie Périer, fan of Thomas Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc, in a relationship for years with Sylvie Duval, a discreet companion who accepted that her beloved should not divorce Françoise Hardy, lives today in Corsica, in the house that Jean-Marie Périer had built for the one whom he took a photo so well: “When it was built, I never slept there with her. But I spent 40 years there with Jacques, doing stupid things.” And to see their boy Thomas grow up there, whom he describes as a clever mix of the legendary couple, “but better”. A discreet and talented fifty-year-old, as attached to his parents – he was so present for his mother in moments of joy as well as the hardest – as to music. If Françoise Hardy had “no luck with guys” as Jean-Marie Périer said, with her son Thomas, she was blessed.
It’s been a month since Françoise Hardy left us, at the age of 80 and after having suffered so much from illness. His friend, who was also his companion during his youth, the photographer Jean-Marie Périer, shared intimate confidences with Le Parisien, while he was at the Francofolies in La Rochelle. He returns in particular to the relationship of his great friend with men, and of course, the famous Jacques Dutronc. A tender and frank look at an artist and a woman he admired so much and whom he worked with until the end.
In 1962, Françoise Hardy met Jean-Marie Périer, photographer for Paris Match and Salut les amis. Five years later, the legendary couple between the singer and the interpreter of I love girls is formed but her relationship with the biological son of Henri Salvador does not end and takes the form of a solid friendship. Which allows him to be today a major witness to the history of the legendary duo Hardy-Dutronc and his love stories with boys in general, as he explains to Le Parisien: “Perhaps she wasn’t made for that. It made her write beautiful songs, but it’s still very hard, she didn’t have the guys to match her. I thought too much about her image and not enough. to her… She was an 18 year old kid, what she wanted was for us to go to the lakeside holding hands. It’s stupid.
Jacques Dutronc took years to settle down with Françoise Hardy, cultivating his taste for freedom which was not easy to manage for his wife and mother of their only son Thomas. Jean-Marie Périer tempers the attitude of the man who has become a great accomplice: “Jacques, it’s not his fault, he was 23 years old and had a string of girls sleeping on his stairs. It took him five years to go live with her. But he was always on vacation, on tour, with me… It was hard for the older girl. Meanwhile, she was waiting…”
Jean-Marie Périer, fan of Thomas Dutronc
Jacques Dutronc, in a relationship for years with Sylvie Duval, a discreet companion who accepted that her beloved should not divorce Françoise Hardy, lives today in Corsica, in the house that Jean-Marie Périer had built for the one whom he took a photo so well: “When it was built, I never slept there with her. But I spent 40 years there with Jacques, doing stupid things.” And to see their boy Thomas grow up there, whom he describes as a clever mix of the legendary couple, “but better”. A discreet and talented fifty-year-old, as attached to his parents – he was so present for his mother in moments of joy as well as the hardest – as to music. If Françoise Hardy had “no luck with guys” as Jean-Marie Périer said, with her son Thomas, she was blessed.
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