Editing Jacques Dutronc (section)

===1980s===
In 1980, Dutronc began work on a new album under the direction of Jacques Wolfsohn, now an executive at {{Interlanguage link|Gaumont Musique|pt}}. Wolfsohn proposed that Dutronc write with both Jacques Lanzmann and Serge Gainsbourg. During recording, Wolfsohn proposed to Lanzmann and Gainsbourg that they each work on alternative lyrics to go with one of Dutronc's instrumental demos. Lanzmann objected to being placed in competition against another writer and dropped out of the project.{{sfn|Leydier|2010|p=185}} The resulting album, ''Guerre et pets'' ("War and Farts" – a play on the title of [[War and Peace|Tolstoy's novel]]), consequently includes only two Lanzmann–Dutronc compositions and is mainly written by Dutronc and Gainsbourg. The album's lead single, "L'hymne à l'amour", received little airplay because its lyric consists primarily of racial epithets (the opening line, roughly translated, is "gook, wog, towel-head, yid"), and the album was only a moderate commercial success. The follow-up, 1982's ''C'est pas du bronze'', was written with Anne Ségalen, by now divorced from Jacques Lanzmann, and was released to a frosty critical reception.{{sfn|Leydier|2010|p=187}}

Dutronc's acting career continued during the 1980s, and he appeared in films such as ''[[Malevil]]'' and [[Barbet Schroeder]]'s ''[[Cheaters (1984 film)|Cheaters]]'' (''Tricheurs''). In 1987, he released a further album, ''C.Q.F.Dutronc''. Most of the songs were written by Dutronc without a partner, although he collaborated with [[Étienne Daho]] on one track and with Jean-François Bernardini of the Corsican folk group [[I Muvrini]] on another.