During the ensuing Thermidorian reaction he helped organize the jeunesse dorée ("gilded youth"), a movement of fashionably dressed young men of bourgeois background who terrorized Jacobin workmen.
In the ensuing Thermidorian reaction, Fréron vigorously denounced the Jacobins in L'Orateur du Peuple and organized the gangs of fashionably dressed jeunesse dorée who assaulted Jacobin workmen in the streets.
After the raid, he signed up with the Front Patriotique de la Jeunesse (FPJ), the Youth Patriotic Front, distributing underground newspapers and tracts denouncing the Nazi occupiers, the Vichy régime and local French collaborators.
We knew that the jeunesse dorée of Tahrir Square were merely a meniscus on the unplumbed well of Egyptian society.
At 8pm, the Mansion had seemed a rather groovy lounge, serving posh beers and cocktails to the jeunesse dorée of the southern metropolis.
Since 1876 Renan had been working on his memoirs, Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse (1883; Recollections of My Youth, 1883), in which he reconstructs his life so as to show that he was predestined to become a prêtre manqué (failed priest) and that, in spite of heavy odds, his wager on the hidden God had paid off in terms of happiness.
In a different vein, Mia Hansen-Løve Hansen-Løvede jeunesse (Goodbye First Love) offered an emotionally satisfying story about the lingering power of first love.
He promised, for example, to be a President of "la justice et la jeunesse," (justice and youth, though the rhyme is sweeter in the original), thus flattening any hopes that he might, in a cunning volte-face, come out in favor of crotchety, intolerant nonagenarians.
The upbeat songs in the opening set, Debussy's "Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse," were more perfunctory than lively, and she sang "Apparition" with Puccinian overstatement rather than mysterious delicacy.
"Quatrième jeunesse (a fourth youth)?
I've done all of these things and been very, very fortunate - so why do I still have the feeling that somehow I still got screwed?" Mia Hansen-Løve's new film is called Un amour de jeunesse in French.
