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 Instagram by ...

French film director franois Truffaut once said that English filmmaking was a contradiction in terms. The Brits have been saying the same thing about French pop music for decades. For the discerning ...

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 icon ...

With hit songs and an understated personality, she incarnated a 1960s cool still treasured by the French. Françoise Hardy in 1966. She incarnated a 1960s cool still treasured by the ...