"I'm twenty years old. I will not let anyone say that it is the best age of life "

Will the "war against the Covid-19", to use the term of Emmanuel Macron pronounced six times in his speech of March 16 where he had decreed general containment, will it revive that of generations? More precisely, the conflict between two main age categories that everything separates, the health situation and economic realities. On my right, would say the referee of a boxing fight, the "baby boomers" born between 1946 and 1964, and on my left the "generation Z" as the Americans baptized to designate the births of after 1996.

There is always an element of arbitrariness in the grouping of classes of different years. Despite everything, the generations of destiny correspond to demographic and socio-economic realities. The “baby boomers”, as “English” suggests, describe the peak population that followed the Second World War. They were born during the Thirty Glorious Years according to the French nostalgic appellation of the thirty years (1945-1975) of the

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