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May 68 — The student, social and political crisis of May 1968
From the Sorbonne cleared to the night of the barricades, then ten million strikers — the country halted, Grenelle negotiated, power wavering until the General’s disappearance to Baden-Baden on the 29th. On 30 May, a four-minute speech and the greatest Gaullist demonstration turned the tide; June returned an unfindable chamber — but society itself had changed. (Editorial synthesis)
May 68 began on 3 May 1968. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
May 68 ended on 23 June 1968. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
May 68 took place in Paris. (source: Larousse)
May 68 ended in ten million strikers, a wavering power — and a changed society. (source: Fondation Charles de Gaulle and INA)
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