Comment à commencer mai 68 ?

Comment à commencer mai 68 ?

Le doyen Pierre Grappin décide alors la fermeture administrative de la faculté, ce qui provoque la diffusion du mouvement de contestation, dès le lendemain, au Quartier latin et à la Sorbonne, et le début, proprement dit, de Mai 68.

What was the night of barricades in Paris?

• Police forces in the Latin Quarter in Paris during the “night of barricades” on May 10 to 11. Riot police in front of the Le Rex cinema on the Grands Boulevards in Paris. The 1968 Cannes Film Festival was cancelled about halfway through its run because of the protests and strikes.

Where to build a barricade in Paris?

• Barricades quickly go up on Rues Royer-Collard, Saint Jacques, des Irelandais, de l’Estrapade, at the corner of Rues Claude Bernard and Gay Lussac, and at the junction of Rues Saint Jacques and Fosses Saint Jacques.

Are barricades only defensive measures?

• The argument most often used by those who were to become the partisans of the construction of barricades is that these are only defensive measures aimed at parrying any surprise attack. 9:15 pm, Rue Le Goff, when the first barricades goes up: a few cars, publicity panels, fences around trees, paving stones.