Ces Habitudes des Années 60 Qui Vous Étonneraient Aujourd'hui

Open a drawer in a house from the 1960s, and you'll find a mercury thermometer. If it broke, the children would play with the silver beads inside, with their bare hands. And nobody saw the slightest danger. In this video, we follow an ordinary day in the life of the Durand family in 1965, somewhere near Lyon. From waking up until evening, we relive these everyday habits that seem completely insane to us today. The father smoking twenty cigarettes a day, at the table, in the car, everywhere. The children standing on the back seat, without seatbelts. The doctor examining a little girl, cigarette in hand, and prescribing her mulled wine. The ray-memory machine in the shoe store. The mercury beads handled like a toy. Entire afternoons spent outside, unsupervised. And all those invisible dangers—lead, asbestos, DDT—that nobody suspected. Yet, these people were neither crazy nor irresponsible. They did what everyone else did, with the certainties of their time. So one question remains, and we're asking it to you. In sixty years, which of our own habits will seem crazy to our grandchildren? And you, what habit from the sixties did you experience? Which one seems the most incredible to you today? Tell us all about it in the comments; we love reading them. Subscribe to France Racontée for more journeys through time. And thank you for reminiscing with us.