After all this time, it's perfectly clear that there were no bad feelings between Alizée and Mylène, that the decision to separate was mutual, that Mylène was certainly not jealous of Alizée (why should she be, when Mylène is by far the more famous and successful?), and in general it was just something whose time had come. Alizée could easily have continued performing, married or single -- at that time, Jérémy was a performer himself, so any deliberate-obscurity issues that might be present now would not have been then. She could not have done it so easily with a baby, but all the indications are that the decision to take a break came first, Annily afterward with serendipitous timing.
Honestly, I don't know why people insist on making this more complicated than it really was. Artists move past partnerships all the time. You might as well ask why the Beatles broke up, or Simon and Garfunkel, or the Eurythmics. People change, especially creative people. When Alizée says she wanted to move on to different kinds of music than she was singing, I understand that perfectly. There's no reason to look for any other explanation, because that one is surely the truth.
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