C1 · Lesson 41Culture

May 68 and modern France

What happened in May and June 1968, told neutrally: the student movement, the general strike, the Grenelle negotiations, de Gaulle's dissolution of the Assemblée nationale and the June elections, then the debates about its legacy.

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