The thesis defended by Jérémie Peltier, who is director of studies at the Jean-Jaurès Foundation (a reference almost as solid as a researcher at the CNRS), holds up: the French holiday has been dead since long before the pandemic.
France has not known how to have fun for a long time.
M. Peltier extends Philippe Muray's reflection in
Après l'Histoire
(1999): the party has been over since it became compulsory.
Too much party killed the party.
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What has annihilated the bamboula is individualism and exhibitionism.
We don't party anymore, we post selfies.
We no longer dance together, but separately (on TikTok).
Even the prohibition of nightclubs did not give birth to countless speakeasies, just a few secret raves in vacant lots near Rennes, absurdly suppressed by the constabulary.
The photograph of the police officers who, in 2020, smashed mixing consoles, could have taken pride of place on the cover of this insolent essay, so much does it symbolize ...
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