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Politics : Your Thoughts Regarding France?
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From: Nikole Wollerstein3/16/2006 10:05:56 PM
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These sorts of riots with students are nothing new in France --- in fact, when anything gets changed students will riot and other studnets will counter-riot. Basically, the deal is that French politics have been known for thier radicalism and violence. You can go back to the Reign of Terror when the sans-culottes were literally turned loose on the countryside to rape and kill at will or the massive demonstrations against de Gaulle in 1968 where you had liberal and conservative students beating each other with pipes and chains. Another example was when in responding the Great Depression the French were bitterly divided and did little to help matters and even got horribly and violently sidetracked by the Spanish Civil War. Why did France fall in 1940, part of the reason was that the army didn't cooperate with itself very well as many of the solidiers were communists while thier officers were fascist-friendly. Then there was the Dreydus Incident which bitterly divided the 3rd Republic. I could go on and on naming examples.
It's just a thing with the French, they don't write letters to the editor -- they take to the streets and piss off enough people until counter-demonstrators come along and a brawl ensues.
French politics are just wild by nature.
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