Submitted by paxgallodacica on September 7, 2005 - 12:20pm.
No, it's now free of broadcast, and you can hear it on the waves though it's not often because it becomes old. Nevertheles, the singer Michel Sardou is still popular and he goes on singing.
To understand well that song, we have to replace it on the year it was sung. In 1967, it had been about 5 years since France had his own atomic bomb. This weapon was the result of a policy of independance initiated in the 50's during the 4th Republic and then reinforced by French President General De Gaulle. Its aim was to have our own mean of dissuasion against "any sate from any direction" (regardless whether it came from East or West). In that way, it ensured us a particular weight on the international plan. From the USA, this was seen as betrayal. Moreover, one year before, in 1966, following its policy of independance, France left the NATO military integrated command driving away the US troops based in France. On the social point of view, in France begun the sentiment of a crisis that exploded one year later, in 1968. This movement was a need for freedom asked both by teenagers and women (in 1966 was introduced the contraceptive pill). French old traditional society was in figth against the young people, the students, who surely were inspired by the free american way of living.
So this song may have been seen as a provocation against the good order and the efforts to regain pre-war weight and power.
Nevertheles, the singer Michel Sardou is still popular and he goes on singing.
To understand well that song, we have to replace it on the year it was sung.
In 1967, it had been about 5 years since France had his own atomic bomb. This weapon was the result of a policy of independance initiated in the 50's during the 4th Republic and then reinforced by French President General De Gaulle. Its aim was to have our own mean of dissuasion against "any sate from any direction" (regardless whether it came from East or West). In that way, it ensured us a particular weight on the international plan. From the USA, this was seen as betrayal.
Moreover, one year before, in 1966, following its policy of independance, France left the NATO military integrated command driving away the US troops based in France.
On the social point of view, in France begun the sentiment of a crisis that exploded one year later, in 1968. This movement was a need for freedom asked both by teenagers and women (in 1966 was introduced the contraceptive pill). French old traditional society was in figth against the young people, the students, who surely were inspired by the free american way of living.
So this song may have been seen as a provocation against the good order and the efforts to regain pre-war weight and power.