Michel Sardou will receive the National Order of Merit in June. MP Sandrine Rousseau sees this as a new mark of patriarchy.
“The patriarchy will fall, it is already faltering. But they will all decorate each other first,” said Rousseau, MP and feminist figure. Sardou ironically dedicated his song “I will love you’ to Rousseau during what he presented as his last tour, in October 2023 in Normandy. In August 2023, Juliette Armanet described the hit “Les Lacs du Connemara” as “sectarian” and “right-wing”, triggering a wave of hatred on social networks. A controversy deemed “ridiculous” by the singer. The singer, 77, established himself as one of the monuments of French song during a career marked by dozens of hits (“La Maladie d’amour’, “Being a woman”…)