In 1967, François Hardy broke up with Jean-Marie Périer to form an emblematic couple with Jacques Dutronc, with whom she was still married.
At the microphone of Europe 1, the famous photographer tells us why he did not feel hatred towards the singer.
On the contrary: he never ceased to admire her.
INTERVIEW
It is the story of a fascination that first leaves one wondering: how can a normally constituted man find formidable the one for whom his partner has left him after several years of living together?
The question arises about Jean-Marie Périer, "fallen mad" by Jacques Dutronc when François Hardy decided to leave him, in the mid-1960s. In
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, at the microphone of Michel Denisot, the famous photographer returns to this admiration particular.
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The photographer for the musical magazine
Salut les copains
and the singer of the time yéyé, in a relationship since 1963, separated in 1967. "At first, I cannot imagine not loving the person she loves, since I love her. 'loved it,' says Jean-Marie Périer in this interview broadcast on Saturday.
"It's automatic. I've had this with all the women I've loved. There were five, that's not bad!"
"Dutronc was nuts"
On Europe 1, the photographer describes the fascination that the singer of the
Cactus
exerted on him: "Dutronc… He was so different from the rest. Besides, they were all rock, all Americanized. He arrived in a suit and tie. He came in a suit and tie. He was crazy. He said things of incredible insolence, so he immediately fascinated me ", he recounts more than fifty years after his break with Françoise Hardy.
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What I wanted was to spin Dutronc
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It is also for Jacques Dutronc that Jean-Marie Périer will temporarily leave the world of photography to "make cinema" at the beginning of the 1970s. "It was not to be a director", assures t it today.
"No, I didn't care. What I wanted was to spin Dutronc."
What he will do in the feature films
Antoine et Sébastien
(1974) and
Sale Rêveur
(1978).