Paris erupts in May 1968
May 1968
Student protests at Nanterre spread to the Sorbonne and then to factories across France. Ten million workers struck. De Gaulle briefly fled to a French army base in Germany to make sure the troops would still obey him. The uprising collapsed, but something had broken in Western European assumptions about authority and the good life.
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