We belonged to a generation born between '55 and '62, between a rock and a hard place; we had seen our older brothers shift all gears from the idealism of the 68 firebrands to the sated greed of overfed businessmen in the 80's. On the other hand, we had also been witnesses to the twilight of Giscard Gaullism in the 7O's, cynical, corrupted, and dumber by the minute, a withered, musty, curdled France.
We were part of a generation born between '55 and '62, caught between two contrasting trends: witnessing our older brothers' shift from idealistic 1968 revolutionaries to the materialistic greed of wealthy businessmen in the 1980s.  At the same time, we also observed the decline of Giscard d'Estaing's Gaullist era in the 1970s, characterized by cynicism, corruption, and a general deterioration of French society.