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Paris And The Revolution
The spirit of 68 isn't dead. Here's a great quote from Agnès Poirier in the Guardian:
"The week we were recording le podtour, during one of those caffeine stops at Le Balzar, two well-known intellectuals, one celebrated publisher and a Sorbonne professor, were discussing Sarkozy's future: "He won't finish his mandate" said one. "How can you be so sure?" asked the other. "Because I've got my finger on two thousand students' pulse" came the answer. Reminded me of a conversation Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre are reported to have had right there, back in 1947. Sartre asked Camus what he would do if France was invaded by the Soviet army. Camus replied: "I resist. You?" Sartre: "I won't shoot proletarians.""
Sartre was a wicked fool, Camus a hero, students and Parisian intellectuals alike are reliable fonts of idiocy. Plus ça change...
Don't miss Mme Poirier's multimedia podcast tour of May 1968's most important sites, then and now.
