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 1955 and 1962, caught between two opposing forces: witnessing our older brothers' transition from idealistic revolutionaries in the 1960s to the materialistic greed of business leaders in the 1980s.  Simultaneously, we also observed the decline of Giscard d'Estaing's Gaullist era in the 1970s, marked by cynicism, corruption, and a general deterioration of French society.