The book came out in France in , but the intervening years caused her anxiety in spades. She learned in that she had lymphatic cancer, and in she was placed in a coma from which it seemed unlikely she would ever wake up. But the phrase applies at least in part to the rest of her life. She was 17 when she began her singing career. In her memoir, she tells an amusing story of being asked by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards to his apartment in London.
In between quiet moments of elation, such as when she signed her first and longstanding contract with Vogue Records, life for her was a perpetual state of anxiety. The shyness and insecurity of her teens never really left her. When her first lover, a photographer, was on an assignment, she was convinced he would fall in love with the woman he was photographing…. And so it goes on throughout most of this candid, articulate, but mildly exasperating autobiography.
What makes it a good read is her quiet, self-deprecating narrative, which one critic described as English humor. She has a strong will and strong opinions, strongly held, including on the Iraq War, abortion, and the consequences of overpopulation. William Klein and Richard Avedon also photographed her for Vogue and multiple other publications. Her face appeared on Paris Match so regularly that she became the French cover girl of the s.
Though she did not hang out with the bohemians and intellectual crowd of the Left Bank, she became associated with the romantic existentialism of the time. In , she married singer, songwriter, and actor Jacques Dutronc after a long period in which, typically, they circled each other warily like two sumo wrestlers except much thinner, of course , each unable to make the decisive move.
In Europe, they were a superstar couple, and the marriage produced a son, Thomas, himself a singer-songwriter. In marriage, Dutronc remained the clownish playboy beloved by the French and, of course, a source of fresh anxiety for his wife, who writes about her anguish at his affair with the German actress Romy Schneider, with whom he was making a movie. Yet even at the height of her fame she remained a starry-eyed fan of other favorite performers.
While shopping in London, she ran into Mick Jagger. The two exchanged greetings and went their separate ways. Singing in French, Italian, German, and English, the shy beauty in turn cast a spell on many of her contemporaries.
Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Brel, and — of course — her close friend Johnny Hallyday were admiring fellow inmates of her gilded cage. Today, miraculously recovered and amicably divorced from her husband, she lives in a two-bedroom apartment in the 16 th arrondissement , listening to classical music, writing, and reading the works of favorite writers who have become friends, such as controversial novelist Michel Houellebecq.
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