Les Échos de Vacarme - To our first love

Love floods literature, movies and our imaginations. First love is even more charged with expectations and fantasies. A pivotal experience, first love leaves traces that are supposed to determine at least part of the rest of our love lives. A survey conducted by a British dating site in 2015 claimed that 60% of adults regularly thought about the person who made their heart beat for the first time. 40% of them even claimed to still have "feelings". But what is first love? Why should it be more successful than others? To whom are first feelings destined? From early childhood to old age, how does first love permeate our lives?