Paris 1968: The Students' Revolt (TRIH eps 353-354)
1968 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook report from Paris to tell the story of May 1968. They set the scene—postwar France, rapid expansion of university education, grim suburban overspill campuses (notably Nanterre), and a hierarchical, paternalistic society under Charles de Gaulle. A local student occupation at Nanterre, led in part by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, met heavy-handed disciplinary responses, drawing protests into central Paris and provoking violent confrontations with the poli...
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