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 (in 1994, France had 3.5 million unemployed, or 1 million more than in 1990, and 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” and their children have been marked since the end of the 1980s by the appearance of HIV.
Born during the peak of the Trente Glorieuses, the “boomers” are falling from a height, they who have only known one war, Intervilles, to use the expression of the humorist Gaspard Proust.
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