Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Rounding Out The Family - Françoise Hardy


Last semaine we did Father & son singers Jacques Dutronc & Thomas Dutronc. It's time to give femme et mère Françoise Hardy her own post.

Françoise Madeleine Hardy (born January 171944 in Paris) is a French singeractress and astrologer. Hardy is an iconic figure in fashion, musique style and personality in the Francophile world.

Hardy sings in FrenchEnglishItalianSpanish, and German.

In 1981, she married her long-time companion Jacques Dutronc, with whom she had had a fils, Thomas Dutronc, in 1973. In 1994, elle collaborated with the British pop group Blur for their "La Comedie" version of To The End. In May 2000, elle made a comeback avec the album Clair Obscur. Her fils played guitar and her mari sang the duet "Puisque Vous Partez En Voyage. Hardy lives near Paris and Dutronc lives in MonticelloCorsica, although they remain a couple.

semaine (seh mahn) -week
femme et mère (fehm ay mehr) -wife & mother
musique (mew zeek) -music
fils (feece) -son
elle (ell) -she
avec (ah vehk) -with
mari (mah ree) -husband


"Mon Amie La Rose" Francoise Hardy

4 comments:

  1. This is weird, I wrote a comment on this post and it didn't appear!

    I just wanted to let you know that son = fils (you forgot to write down the "s"). And you don't pronounce the "l" when saying the word.

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  2. Well this one showed up, thank goodness.

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  3. So Isabelle, is the word pronounced "feeze" or just "fee"?

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