In France they call them the soixante-huitards [’68-ers]; perpetrators and fellow-travellers of les evenements de Mai, the epochal Paris student riots of May 1968. Now middle-aged and more bourgeois than the hated bourgeoisie they sought to bring down, the soixante-huitards and their counterparts around the globe have spent this thirtieth anniversary year of the evenements romanticising or justifying the rebellious and detrimental domino effect their riots set in train.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
La Belle Epoch
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Oh for the days when troubled "youths" had names like Jacques, Alphonse, and Pierre.
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