/566/ The Last Big French Crisis ft. Charles Devellennes

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gz2s2-1b9f81c

On the pupils’ protests and wider riots.

Charles Devellennes, author of books on Macron and French protests, is back on the pod, talking to Alex about a month of insurrection in France.

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• Why are these types of revolts so common in Macron’s France?

• Are things that bad – or do the French have higher standards?

• Why did the secondary school pupil’s protests explode into something bigger?

• Are the demonstrations “anti-French”? Even anti-civilisation?

• Can the radical left profit or is it Le Pen’s presidency to lose?

Links

• High school protests met with unparalleled repression, Charles Devellennes substack

• The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract, Charles Devellennes

• France: between the bond market and the barricades, FT

• France’s riots: revolution without utopia, Muriel Zagha, Engelsberg Ideas

• France’s long history of revolt, Julian Jackson, Engelsberg Ideas