Françoise Hardy, celebrated for her beauty and style, in Milan in the 1960s.Credit...Mondadori, via Getty Images Supported by Introduction by Elisabeth Vincentelli The French pop star Françoise ...

But in the 1960s and 1970s, she was very real. Françoise Hardy, who died of cancer on Tuesday, found fame first as a singer. She popularized the breezy French pop genre known as yé-yé.

Portrait of singer Francoise Hardy wearing knee-length boots by Vivier outside her hotel during an interview with Women's Wear Daily, in town for the next three weeks to promote her new movie ...

French singer Francoise Hardy, who shot to international stardom ... naive unattractive girl" she had been led to believe. A portrait of the French singer taken in March 1970 in Paris during ...

Françoise Hardy, the French icon and singer known for evoking romantic existentialism in her music, has died at the age of 80. Her son, Thomas Dutronc, confirmed her death in a Facebook post.

Françoise Hardy, the French chanson singer, songwriter, fashion “It Girl” and darling of the 1960s “yé-yé” French pop movement, has died. She was 80. Her death was announced Tuesday on ...

When he came to Paris to do his first concert there, Hardy recalled, he refused to return to the stage unless she agreed to meet him. French singer-songwriter Francoise Hardy, UK, 9th February 1968.

Hardy, whose lyrics often captured the angst and longing of adolescence, had been battling lymphatic cancer since 2004. By The Associated Press Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop ...

Françoise Hardy, the icon of French pop who rose to fame in the 1960s yé-yé scene before branching further afield, has died after a long battle with illness, BBC News reports. “Maman est ...