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there were really two aspects of it.
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There were the strikes-- more about that in a minute
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and then there were the student demonstrations,
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the riots, the aggressive reaction by the so-called "forces of order,"
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which is what they liked to call themselves,
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and leading eventually to the resignation of Charles de Gaulle.
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So, it was at a time, rather like 1936,
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when everything seemed possible and it was a time of great optimism.
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And there are all sorts of books published of the graffiti of 1968,
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as students, most of whom smoked in those days,
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went into the Odéon theater
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and unfortunately burned, with their cigarettes,