What unrest on French streets could mean for next year’s presidential election

By David Lees, Reader in French Studies, University of Warwick

And so France continues to smoulder. Two weeks after the first mass demonstrations in support of increased funding for French state schools, events reached a peak on Saturday October 17. Widespread destruction of small businesses, cafés, town halls and chain shops have brought the French economy even further to catastrophe.

The scenes of mass looting, along with the burning spire of the 150-year-old Limoges town hall hardly inspire confidence…

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