Françoise Hardy, a star of French chanson since the 1960s, died aged 80, her son Thomas Dutronc announced on Tuesday, June 11. "Maman is gone," Dutronc wrote in a post on Instagram.

Born in Paris on January 17, 1944, Hardy first came to public attention in 1962, when she performed her song "Tous les garçons et les filles" during a musical interlude broadcast during the results of the referendum on the election of the French president by universal suffrage. Le Monde looks back on her career and greatest musical hits.