Jean-Marie Périer: what are his relations with Jacques Dutronc since the death of Françoise Hardy?

In an interview with Le Parisien, Jean-Marie Périer, Françoise Hardy’s former partner and lifelong friend, spoke about his relationship with the singer. He also revealed how he got along with Jacques Dutronc since the departure of “the great”.

It’s been a month since singer Françoise Hardy left us at the age of 80. It was at Père Lachaise that the singer’s friends said their goodbyes during a very moving ceremony, marked by a few technical issues. Thomas Dutronc, the singer’s son, and her husband Jacques Dutronc – accompanied by the woman who has shared her life for thirty years – made many tender gestures during the ceremony.

At their side was Jean-Marie Périer, the photographer who shared Françoise Hardy’s life for four years. But if this love affair was relatively brief, The friendship that united the two artists lasted their whole lives.. To the point of still being neighbors: “I was lucky enough to have lived 300 m from her house for a year. I saw her through to the end. She suffered for fifteen years and, in the end, it became hell, he explained to the Parisian I was supposed to see her on Saturday, and on Friday night she sent me a message, a photo of her screen in the dark with simply written “don’t come tomorrow”. Then it was the hospital, and the end…”

Jean-Marie Périer opens up about his relationship with Jacques Dutronc

If Jean-Marie Périer shared the life of Françoise Hardy, he was also the friend of the husband of the singer, Jacques Dutronc. In 2020, he explained to the newspaper The world : “When, after our separation, she told me she met someone, I wanted to see this man. It was Jacques. I liked him a lot, with his suit and tie and the insolence he uttered.”

“Lover” by Jacques Dutronc, the biological son of Henri Salvador has always had a privileged relationship of friendship with the singer. This friendly/love triangle between the three artists operated for almost 60 years. But today, the photographer tells the Parisian that with Françoise Hardy’s husband, the ties have become strained: “No, we don’t see each other much, he’s in Corsica, me, in Aveyron. But the party is over. Jacques, what was great was when he was in a tie and the most insolent on the planet. Today, well, he is Corsican. In this house that I had built for Françoise. While it was being built, I never slept there with her. But I spent forty years there with Jacques, to do stupid things.” A relationship all the same, which will have lasted a lifetime.