“To make all the Marquis de Sade pale. To make the whores in the harbor blush
To make you scream thanks to all the echoes.
To shake the walls of Jericho.
I will love you."
Almost everyone knows the words of the famous song by Michel Sardou, released in 1976. Few, however, know that, 48 years later, this hit has become a means for the 77-year-old singer, labeled on the right since the end of the 1960s, to make fun of the ecofeminist Sandrine Rousseau.
On tour since the beginning of October, the singer of
En chantant
ironically dedicates this powerful declaration of love to the EELV MP.
Which built its political notoriety on its fight against sexist and sexual violence.
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Saturday evening, while he gave his penultimate Parisian concert at the Défense Arena, Michel Sardou somewhat supported his humor regarding the relationships between men and women.
True to his character, the singer says, according to comments reported by
Le Parisien
:
“I am going to sing you a song that we could no longer write today.”
“I took advantage of it but for the young people of now, it’s not going to be easy.
(...) A young man who places his hand without consent on a woman's hand is in direct custody.
If he has the audacity to want to put his hand elsewhere, it’s Fleury-Mérogis!”
, continues, squeakingly, the singer from
France
.
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Before shooting an arrow at the elected Parisian, to whom he dedicates, mockingly,
I'm going to love you.
“This song, I hope, will perhaps deconstruct a little more, if it were possible, a charming woman, delicious, tender, intelligent, annoying: Madame Sandrine Rousseau,”
he squeaks to the laughter of part of the public.
A new controversial outing on which the main interested party was led to react.
Guest of Sud Radio Monday morning, the parliamentarian did not share the analysis of one of the last sacred monsters of French song.
“A resistance” in the face of the “revolution”
“It’s not true that putting your hand on someone else’s hand is sexual assault. Sexual assaults are the buttocks, the breasts, the sex,”
Sandrine Rousseau wanted to hammer home.
Who sees in this artist
“the incarnation of (a) resistance to what is happening”
: a
“gentle, very profound revolution of changes in male-female relationships.”
Appalled, the EELV MP took the opportunity to recall Michel Sardou's old statements on the distribution of household chores.
At the beginning of 2023, the singer had in fact recalled that he did not vacuum his home, leaving this work to his wife or his cleaning lady.
While nevertheless insisting on his interest in cooking in favor of his partner.
“That time is over.
Sorry Michel, but the time that is coming is a time of equality, and it is much better,”
she said.
In response to
I'm going to love you,
the environmentalist ironically declared his love for him, a few moments later on X:
“Me too, Michel, I love you.”
Sandrine Rousseau may have said that
she "happened to sing"
by Michel Sardou,
"like everyone else and in (her) youth to end her evening on Les Lacs du Connemara",
the relationship between the singer and the feminist is made up of barbs and reciprocal provocations.
On BFMTV, more than a year ago, the artist, who regularly gives his sharp opinions on society, did not mince his words about the media figure of the left.
Refusing to be a
“deconstructed”
man to use the semantics of the chosen one, Michel Sardou
“wondered”
, ironically,
“what was missing from Sandrine Rousseau’s husband?”
“What did she deconstruct?”
And to continue his charge:
“(Her) husband, frankly poor guy, shouldn’t we organize a march to help this poor guy?
We should not organize a solidarity fund to say “my poor boy, what have you stumbled upon?””
Very mocking remarks, which caused a lot of ink to flow at the time.
Already making the MP react.
In a demonstration against pension reform, she stood in front of a sign whose message could not have been clearer:
“Sardou shut up!”
.