{"id":15635,"date":"2018-06-07T21:48:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T20:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=15635"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T18:16:37","slug":"none-other-than-francoise-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/musique\/personne-dautre-que-francoise-hardy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abNobody else\u00bb but Fran\u00e7oise Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday melodies - Jonas Follonier<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fran\u00e7oise Hardy had not released an album for six years. And we didn't necessarily expect her to come out with one, given the health problems she had to endure, to the point of risking death. The singer is resurrected, and this element adds to the greatness of this artist whose class, elegance and charm no longer need to be proven. The legendary interpreter of Personal message<\/em> or Time for love <\/em>also has a voice that gives an idea of what angels must sound like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

So we listen to this new opus knowing that it will be a masterpiece. In such cases, as Alain Finkielkraut so aptly put it when speaking of literary classics, \u00abwe're not afraid that it will disappoint us, but that we'll disappoint it by not measuring up\u00bb. Just the relationship between Fran\u00e7oise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc, who have loved each other so much but have lived their own lives for years without ever having divorced, is enough to generate emotion when reading the title. No one else<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

There's no one better than Fran\u00e7oise Hardy to sing these ethereal, dreamlike melodies, which plunge us into a lucid sweetness, a serene sadness, as we take stock at the end of what has been a very successful life. Certain tracks stand out from the rest, of course: the eponymous song No one else<\/em>, and, of course, the single Le large<\/em>, whose clip, directed by Fran\u00e7ois Ozon, is simply one of the most moving things to happen on this good old planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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