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Clare BYRNE

French Singer And 60s Pop Icon Francoise Hardy Dies Aged 80

French actors and singers Francoise Hardy and Jacques Dutronc married in 1981 (Credit: AFP)

French singer Francoise Hardy, whose crystalline voice and melancholy lyrics shot her to international stardom in the 1960s, has died at the age of 80, according to her son.

Thomas Dutronc, Hardy's son with another French music star, Jacques Dutronc, announced her death on Tuesday.

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