Digby Warde-Aldam

Meet the musicians trying to revive French-language pop 

The small number of acts in Paris reclaiming their language form a large percentage of its most interesting performers

The late, imperishably great Françoise Hardy – pictured here in 1969 – was one of the only French postwar pop acts to pull off a convincing English album. Credit: David Cairns / Daily Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
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