Jean-Pierre Le Goff

Jean-Pierre Le Goff was born in the suburbs of Cherbourg, to a fisherman father and a mother born to small businessmen. He could have worked in a slaughterhouse, or become a veterinarian because he was a good student. He will become a sociologist, after a few rebellions in high school and agitated studies at the University of Caen. But he was already a sociologist as a child. He retained everything he observed in family behavior, the beginnings of mass consumption, the war so far and so near, Tintin and the Pocket Book, the cinema, catechism and funerals, La Hague at atomic time, advertising, city lights, women's daily life, the yéyés... So many structures and ruptures that announced the tipping point of May 68. Fifty years later, to avoid misunderstandings and recuperations, nothing is more legitimate than this account, published by Stock: La France d'hier, tale of an adolescent world, from the 1950s to May 68.