Jean-Loup Dabadie has just died, he was 81 years old. As I learned it, it occurred to me that it was far too early to die. This thought would never have crossed my mind, neither me nor anyone, half a century ago.
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In La Vieillesse , published in 1970, a magnificent essay although marked by a strongly dated ideology, Simone de Beauvoir speaks of a world that is no longer ours. She paints a dismaying picture of the fate reserved in France for the elderly. Thus, she writes, "we seem to consider that they belong to a foreign species: they have neither the same needs nor the same feelings as other men if it suffices to grant them a miserable alms to feel left with respect them " . She explains this situation by the fact that, constituting no economic force, the elderly"Do not have the means to assert their rights: the interest of exploiters is to break the solidarity between workers and unproductive workers so that they are not defended
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