The French Student Riots: Autumn Encore? Max Cole in Paris Talks With French Student Recalling the Turmoil

in the subway cause terrible day the paint everywhere red and tender on the nights that you know you see in those on the night monuments they destroyed many things in total see that trump is not the moment you want to destroy instance mona not just goldman those were the words of a young french student that i spoke with earlier today on passed a local ordinance this is michael and i am now on boulevard sandy hill in a cafe a sidewalk cafe and it's a nice warm july evening and people are strolling by and they have a habit of doing and the hair for many years on movies which is an affectionate apply the interesting to hear how we are situated in the sorbonne area the university of paris and it really covers a very deliberate oil

around us we're now across the street in that direction the new measures of the plants we also divulge you have a lack of a full year we haven't yet and and here we have the university and these cafes and restaurants are recognized by students and those two who are now walking by the device and the show both on a slow rolling slow her down can withstand river across a small brick and then on through the eu did not speak to me where many government buildings are not far from notre dame cathedral and the eagles here julie where the revolutionary prisoners are kept on that than on many of the others that of course was the original french

revolution turn of the nineteenth century however there's been something which is sort of been called a revolution that's been taking place right in this area where we're filling i'm not too long ago that three weeks ago i didn't say that of course i wasn't here but i do have a good idea to seek out a student loan and asked exactly what happened to get the viewpoint of one of the students attending the sorbonne what he thought about a lot because the implications on the larger french society and perhaps what might happen in future so i took my tape recorder to last a local board and interviewed a student there earlier today and this is how it went i'm sitting on customer call court here in paris and this is one of the most exciting places you would be to my left alone in front of the are also weak which is one of the five museums and the retirees area here i see

the you know openly and i suppose i can see it so far down and to the right to sell that we call it the eiffel tower which is one of the landmarks of paris but for the exposition of the twentieth century and there's a post dated somehow it just devastated right is it shows in the state which goes up to the arctic to be open in the middle of pastor local color is really that is to the revolution of france because that's where mahdi and one out let's go ahead and go out on here that the rest of the cocoa this might be a good place to see someone that like that's your question to about some alliterative i see somebody coming is a young fellow looks like it would be a student was to oppose them cast own the rest i guess i

guess i gave it well you find an answer to this question looking at their watch in a moment we are all rail i'm still very oh you don't have to get dna because i may ask you some political question as in that well good i'm glad his hair so you look about a student's a guy who is honest and you know i just took my degree of know so i'm laying low e r ny by sean into work very soon well i was looking on here and saying to myself what a lot of this is taking place around plus a local court and then just it seems to be going on and i thought maybe you might be able to give me a few answers to some questions about something that were going around would you like so were you that you see much of a yes to the first day when he burst out so i went in the middle and the couple tell more we

fight everywhere end it makes me very sad because he was not you want to come to station off divorce party but for the book and to station off capitalism in general and i'm for i'm not communist and it makes me very sad because you can see red flags in black flags in paris it was really feels like it the communists a town the tools are old enough keys to are everywhere and it was really terrible you see at first it was a student to student moment but picking this up in a new university says future to a lot of the areas that they wanted three things they want a yellow bulls teachers that it went in the end of the year the wall by them and they wanted

a silly thing sexual liberty in their rooms but they have a little robot ethics of ego that well the sweet women that you see at the bobbi it was a new product to make the revolution because of the service and was regarded as before and the they gave these projects to do that bump was there an errand or a goal in mind for these people you as a first accord stations see the government nothing set in that we got a call that the revulsion see these little revolution in the gulf not there was nothing next to the next there's no week after it's all gone and this was a little more and then you know it's all gone the students do all the things you would find at the storied history the street was like a week old they gave the students do all the stones tune to throw against the police they broke and fight

everything it will be called don't want to vote on war and the after that the workers joined the students code to have some sort of improvements to see that the revolution was the fact of new students and my opinion the problem is that it was not the student movement it was on the station's see an international border station against capitalism it was not a good discussion all these two countries you off to ghost regime but more to confiscation of a way of beating all are capitalizing and it's a unintelligible in the city rather surprised me and i think many americans we have had our student rising fifth of the university for instance and there were legitimate complaints to students at but what i think surprised most americans was the

extent to which this move for instance it began at the sorbonne and it had spread to the workers so apparently there was some kind of discontent beyond this underneath it about the fact that in spite of this however it spread the gall is now with more political power than ever before he really people feared this kind of an ok yes yes because you mean doing two month as there was so much on it barry's that people after who didn't vote for the gold they bolted for peaceful against sold out against not key and against that that red flag that red flag which is the endgame of revolutionary and against them black flagg and we have to do which is that the fact of the it has nothing to say with the with new revolution the cultural revolution that the naacp he wanted to destroy destroyed and that was terrible

there were a lot of off people in the stands of the university and see the rats we could see four years we could see people offering thirty five years of fighting yeah to destroy everything that was a probably you're saying that there were outsiders this was not completely student movement noted that point was that from the outside from a cow moment like legacy everywhere you see inhofe and hollande both pro bowl unit in dutch landing germany you know initially the morton's like that's the way have you seen the new deal show and we would say rudy the red cloud either add that germany does it we have a convent so we think that he's actually said what are you

going to do mark rutgers university in other words what you're saying it is this is an international student movement seems to be well we i suppose would say is when you laugh not looking to the theories of arc so much as che guevara of mao tse tung yes yes mark send it in you know very far from that was say yes awful sealed the city's two else did that and also we and the fault of the convent eden revealed a community like no caucus more to it i'd like to ask a couple questions about the specifics of the uprising here exactly where and first it does take place everything to this ground assault on people or the students they did the sorbonne an order yet as indicative of history it was a it was like a house and what astonished me is that the police didn't do anything and

he offered people were asked a nice to see all the students where he and give the flu was completely the hands of the revolutionary well you heard such things as police brutality is this this is the true oh no no that makes me makes me very angry and i'm angry too that people really they get exercise restraint did in this case in other words where the police might have been brutally were not an unknown national police have never been kicked out you see when we we knew we wanted there were much more wanted on the police died that on the other side are the top five google arms that they didn't do anything it receives drugs and strokes and we have one that we might not see and ad copy of order to the

revolution like the one with adina seventeen nineteen eighty nine i think it could have been answered i mean it was really every everybody was totally hands of the revolution of people and one day one night we went down there it was a money decision for allah flight we have seen too much red guy and the fact that we had some a troubled that everybody went down we have a love for and flight and the other places in conflict though so we know that they've always been ready i believe at the time of the student outbreaks here and he remained there for several days when things became quite serious here then when he came back and he announced that about what it would like to do to bring reforms and so forth that i remember in the papers saying this huge parade of people the missiles at say is this in honor of the

ballpark and kate read what was the fight can tell you my opinion is different each wasn't i went down in the street and it was affordable it was the first that is disorder and for all of freedom only but it was and i think a lot of people were mixed with that those people that when been done before all of the people who wanted to see only the two years and it can again he will not portable but it was against pro gay chief registry consulate very for capitalism and run a tribe or revolution like that over a survey around the area that happened i would like to work talk a bit about the golf adage you do the american people you know all americans are

well i don't normally like to be liked and over the past ten years and that all of them are the mid fifties lot of people you know have a feeling that while americans are not well they're not quite the acceptable in one move on i suppose this is not just the french people as well i don't believe this is true because people been very kind of a year you see it's not because people don't like american people that offers people dislike and that's completely wrong i love american people i didn't want to follow or botnet the norton yes yes i really i love i go back next year i think it's really want people very kind and you see it's not because people don't like people that owned part of that like we mustn't forget that in nineteen forty four american people who didn't believe a person all

indians who you now we should be clear that's that stroll and that perhaps americans to remind themselves too often that i've always heard that the french people are very involved with ideas and theories and they believe a great deal in the end opponents of the individual yes yes yes that's what you see as the problem with the fact that we went in the way of subtlety hugo that the nato likely nato yes yes because when you have a brother weekend best and then one day your normal and nor my brother that's a banjo community in china i used to teach old i remember my grandmother telling me oh watch a tv show in which is the potential of yellow chinese actually a lot more that we have to fall in with our friends we all over senegal is that getting a little older

and somehow it seems to me that francis will but at its best within a matter of a strong leader now he won't be around long and there doesn't seem to be any one of his stature to get flights but of all the idea that a group of the deal will be able to vote if you will that the probability unless you see the fall everybody told me you don't have the olympics but we didn't know and i don't think i do want to deploy once again as in the republican tide that i don't understand why you let people into its thanksgiving eve with tom tomaro and although the french people were very astonished by the city while

jarvis question would be applicable really what man has the confidence of the people who could take nobody nobody nobody that's the problem and i don't see who now welcomes them then i well what about his ow ow ow very well done but they have nobody to see like in england is the wilderness is that's only the sort of relief there are possible all of us the people who could make borrowing you know demonstrated the political ability but you know when you think about french you think of people a noble producing sort of seems to be a sideman or something but gurley doesn't have the stature know i don't need to be tall to a lot of people on that super terrible stroke in the elections and at one time no he said i shall assume more before the dollar as the

world's you know if it made it on things that older adults though is it's a prime minister does he have the support and so he is like how he is left of barrels that he needed me to assemble on the left that he's doing that when they invaded from the battle to join that they have to have different points of view and not it's not that the french people think about so i don't live in general tone colored with all four gave him an honorable people to write me was trying to keep an employee at their political supporters of both they came back for all that you see that's an old story and i think french people have forgotten that says that in any other in the right will

use the thing or not really any longer a danger to the goal and we needed their lgbt mood in the party seeks in seven years it would have been invented to do that because they surely fight to go in but now i think is the time the time is everything and that's the problem in france and in europe in general a lot of people keen to be opposed to our war in vietnam i don't like to be political and that case but when a nasty this and we think you have a history steeped on their self reich yes this would have been a liability know exactly like like you know back from nowhere were speaking which is to pass a local port and it's not too far from here where even now the talks between the

americans and the north vietnamese or are taking place i don't suppose it is much excitement about that i mean people are standing around outside of what we think that happened you see we don't hear a lot of that and as a matter fact the beginning of the discussion and those corresponded to the beginning of the turmoil and i don't know eat the tall more in less time was yes that's i don't know that it would seem to when serenely on its way despite the turmoil i mean from the pictures that we saw in the newspapers and some of the violence that seem to be going on here or article to get a picture of life in paris pretty much outside the latin quarter of all pretty much as usual here i understand not so far as transportation is concerned that they chose stop the subways the taxicabs without running was the place literally paralyzed during that time

although neither side of the street you can go buy it by subway you can do anything or four live people can come and work though there's a lot of people they're getting this about that can come in and worked a twelve hour east was like a desert abbas this also gasoline stations were both thought of the way to get a new poet or seven when we had to go on food money and from retired well it's one of those days i what you think about this fall what you believe in the fall of nineteen sixty eight in october and then a cell phone offers again you believe that we may again i guess because it's actually it's a permanent installation we want to contest everything that permanently yesterday now the new

analysis of obviously inundated their wells on sunday and people are trying to going to destroy everything irritating it was the food of capitalism and i i'm afraid that's in september one day in october when this elbow and we opened another time when there is a question do you believe that the va will join them the world are still not done they get treatment well will improve then they have you know what they have and you don't think the drawing will you believe it it all now believes that reforms are necessary in this will be enough to satisfy also the road so that and noticed that they had to work over improvement and two jamaica re form of the university and other words if we have an explosion in the fall it will probably not be supportive in the sense that it was before the people

the workers seized the opportunity a few weeks ago to get the reforms that they saw on a different level than the students are now if you're right out again and all the students will be to sell the lawyers for the month or is he now a very few of archie or jail those formal in that it lacks much and one what about and go that way if you're the one that although they are only a few leaders in that moment you know the students forgo why they don't price is full of so many beautiful monuments that must've hurt some of the people there to see some of these monuments to face with the burnings and the caring dollars people are all over these beautiful monuments is in the subway cause terrible at the plate paint everywhere red paint and on the nice in that you know you see in the night

monuments they destroyed many things in horrible see that prove it's not a prius to the moment he wants to destroy its small and not just more than that we didn't hear much about this bug was there resistance within the students themselves against those people believe that it was the students' this fight for their students that objected to this kind of behavior all falls on the student up and that's it and i had a lot of cultural with a mind that there were not organized a minute without him the religion is organized into the religion is against the religion is not organized organize the one time when we went down to the street without oil magnate well i don't i say keep it too long way but looking across a beautiful city and it is about a way is it going to rape it's a total city it's always raining on exploring

then all that was beautiful in a way this was world marie antoinette was taken and that card right the palm well i think they call that there was this work says where memory and honor yes yes yes what are those ways well i guess you came from all we hear a digital thermometer even in that direction of napoleon's tomb of though they're ripening that's the lebanese or even adios a lot at the moment to tell you by a meeting barry's and i have never been to see that great thing for me about anything you're like me your average you know most of us has never seen the statue of liberty almost no non and interests come and i suppose at this interview oh i would lose this last year and the first thing i saw was this is you know i think this tour of manhattan and the first thing i saw was the hats you don't anything we can do to

make it a people who come from europe although more comfortable i know we would like to have more visitors and a lot of people have a wall of kind of interesting viewpoint said that bothers me to this one you know believe it or not it a little european tourist it's this stamp machines where you have to put in more money or get out and stay that avenue oh yes i noticed that have said i wonder this that's what i thought that the mission was wrong but it was it was broken well it bothers me to not acknowledge a week you can go to post those who you don't get that fall as dismantle the one gadget you like an urbanite i won't keep you in the long run though you have other things to do and so there's a regular much for the interview and that's interesting to get a young person's viewpoint here a little bit different than some of the things you've been writing about and the senator worried about it i think if we can save enough also interview nominee with a bank of over

that was our conversation which we held earlier today at concord yummy over a french student was observing what one on several weeks ago in the latin quarter during the student and workers uprising or as i don't have to say that the richer all great it's highly of french historian nor can he actually perhaps predict what is going to happen in the future so far as the french history and deciding that this was meant to be a sort of eye witness reports there's an actual and we are back on the voice and the show watching people go back and forth and sailing on a summer evening in paris this interview was produced you're doubling or they are your

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