In Sociology by Mylène Farmer, two researchers study the singer adored by a generation born after the Trente Glorieuses. At the dawn of the 1990s, the last stones of the Berlin Wall were still barely standing, but communism and its illusions had truly vanished.
The baby boom generation, having reached the age of decision, discovers a fragmented and more complex world. The two oil shocks and factory relocations got the better of dreams of full employment. Between 1975 and 1997 our country saw its unemployment rate rise from 3% to nearly 11%. Then, the sixty-eighters fed the slogan “Enjoy without hindrance”