17 mai 2018 - Capricorn vs. Cancer: The Story of F. Hardy (PopMatters)

Capricorn vs. Cancer: The Story of French Singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy

Brett Marie
17 May 2018

All her life, and in much of her music, she had parsed her relationships, her failings and her tribulations for meaning. Now, here in the room with her -- in her very body -- was Death, that annihilator of meaning.

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The Mountain-Goat is forever perching himself on perilous rocks and cliffs... In his search for material sustenance, the Mountain-Goat ascends to his chosen peak with ever-increasing sureness... Each foothold is a calculated one, for even though the Goat is anxious, he takes his time." -- 'Capricorn - I Seek Myself Through What I Use', from Alan Oken's Complete Astrology (Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1980)

Her aura invites mythology. "Nobody knows how Françoise Hardy came to this planet," says English producer Andy Votel. But it's more complicated than that.

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I was born at nine thirty in the evening during an air raid alert. It was on January 17, 1944, at the Marie-Louise Clinic at the top of Rue des Martyrs, in the Ninth Arrondissement of Paris. -- Françoise Hardy, The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles

She is a Capricorn. She wants you to know this. Her memoir, The Despair of Monkeys and Other Trifles opens with the precise time and place of her birth. This is shorthand; if you're versed in the workings of astrology, as she is, this detail will have already given you insight. She can say that she was the daughter of a married man's mistress, and that will tell you some things. She can describe her shy nature, her deep insecurities, her fascination with music, and that will give you more ideas. But her Star Sign will give you another perspective: She is the Mountain-Goat, destined to a life of constant striving, plodding forward in a never-ending quest to reach her personal peak.

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Beaucoup d'astrologie. Il serait intéressant de savoir ce qu'elle en pense.

L'astrologie me semble surtout utilisée comme pirouette stylistique pour dynamiser l'angle d'analyse du parcours singulier de Françoise Hardy par rapport aux personnages plus habituels du show biz.

C'est à la fois original dans la forme et sur le fond. On échappe au énième rappel de la rencontre Dylan / Hardy au profit d'un parcours plus intérieur, plus universel, plus humain.

J'ai d'ailleurs opté pour réserver la traduction du document à de prochains articles à paraître sur la partie blog du site.