1968 (2008)
1968
“—Written on a wall of the Faculté de Médecine,Paris, May 1968 To be free in 1968 is to take part.
—On a stairwell in the school of Science Politique,Paris, May 1968 Certain French students, having found out that students in other countries have shaken up and smashed everything, want to do the same.—ALAIN PEYREFITTE, French minister of education,explaining events, May 4, 1968 AS SPRING CAME to rainy Paris, France’s leader, the seventy-eight-year-old general, a man of the nineteenth century, ...with his near absolute power, ruling under the constitution he had written himself ten years earlier, promised stability, and delivered it.The not quite octogenarian, not quite king, entertained fantasies of monarchy, in fact invited the pretender to the French throne, Henri Comte de Paris, to his palace for talks from time to time—the bethroned president with no crown playing host to the king with no throne. While de Gaulle had little tolerance for opposition, he acted as though he had moved beyond politics and its constant search for supporters to a kind of inevitable permanence.MoreLess
—On a stairwell in the school of Science Politique,Paris, May 1968 Certain French students, having found out that students in other countries have shaken up and smashed everything, want to do the same.—ALAIN PEYREFITTE, French minister of education,explaining events, May 4, 1968 AS SPRING CAME to rainy Paris, France’s leader, the seventy-eight-year-old general, a man of the nineteenth century, ...with his near absolute power, ruling under the constitution he had written himself ten years earlier, promised stability, and delivered it.The not quite octogenarian, not quite king, entertained fantasies of monarchy, in fact invited the pretender to the French throne, Henri Comte de Paris, to his palace for talks from time to time—the bethroned president with no crown playing host to the king with no throne. While de Gaulle had little tolerance for opposition, he acted as though he had moved beyond politics and its constant search for supporters to a kind of inevitable permanence.MoreLess
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