A France in Turmoil Mourns Francoise Hardy, Its Voice of Melancholy Cool
Briefly

It was like Francoise Hardy, the wistful singer and songwriter of a certain French melancholy and style, to slip away in the midst of a political storm... the country through Ms. Hardy's life had come full circle... the end of the afternoon.
For Gabriel Attal, the prime minister, it was the loss of this singular voice of a fierce tranquillity that cradled generations of French people... For Brigitte Bardot, France has lost with her a little of that nobility, of that beauty and that luminous talent...
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