French singer-songwriter, model and actress Françoise Hardy has died at the age of 80. Her death was announced by her son and musician Thomas Dutronc on social media. Dutronc wrote, captioning a photo of himself as a baby with his mother: “Maman est partie” (“Mum is gone”). Hardy revealed in June 2021 that she had been diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 2018, following a lymphoma diagnosis in 2004. Born in 1944 in Paris, Hardy signed a contract with a record label as a teenager. Hardy had her first music hit with ‘Tous les Garçons et les Filles’ (‘All the Boys and Girls’) in 1962, when she was…