 Lanzmann objected to being placed in competition against another writer, and dropped out of the project.The resulting album consequently only includes two Lanzmann-Dutronc compositions, and is mainly written by Dutronc and Gainsbourg.In 2003, Dutronc and Lanzmann reunited for "Madame l'existence", an album described by rock critic Christophe Conte as "surpassing, without much apparent effort, everything that [Dutronc] has created in the last two decades".