Reuters: France braces for trouble, Macron to address 'yellow vest' anger
PARIS (Reuters) - France hunkered down for another wave of potentially violent protests on Saturday as embattled President Emmanuel Macron planned to address the nation next week over public fury at the high cost of living, senior allies said.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the three-week-old “yellow vest” revolt had “created a monster” and vowed police would have no tolerance for violence, with much of Paris in lockdown and tens of thousands of police deployed nationwide.
Named after the fluorescent safety vests that all French motorists must carry, the protesters are billing their planned action on Saturday as “Act IV” of worst unrest seen in the capital since the 1968 student riots.
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13 comments:
The piece on Pouzet was memorable. Especially the fact she knew the exact amounts of her monthly bills.
James,
I know a lot of people like this in Montreal.
Pretty Boy, The Empty Suit, never had a real family.
How could he know how tough it was?
At least Macron kept to the Global Warming Gospel and enacted confiscatory taxes.
Americans inspired the French Revolution and should maybe now take special note of what is going on in Paris.
The French Revolution was due to bankruptcy of the French government (like the Venezuelan government) and poor harvests
"Following the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution, the French government was deeply in debt. It attempted to restore its financial status through unpopular taxation schemes, which were heavily regressive. Leading up to the Revolution, years of bad harvests worsened by deregulation of the grain industry also inflamed popular resentment of the privileges enjoyed by the aristocracy and the Catholic clergy of the established church"
Stuff like this had been going on since the Roman Empire. The Bagaudae for example. The Roman empire settled Warrior tribes amongst the tax slaves of the empire to keep them in line through state approved murder.
There was Wat Tyler's revolt. There were the Peasants Rebellion in SW Germany. Similar things happened in France. It is why there is a nice wood cut of peasant boiling nobles for supper.
Perhaps the idiot ought to get an education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagaudae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Tyler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Peasants%27_War
There is nothing new under the Sun.
Shocking footage shows the moment an arsonist blows himself up as he tries to set a car on fire with two accomplices
Meanwhile in immigrant friendly Montreal
Anon
You totally missed the point. In the words of your great leader. "So sad."
The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution due to its philosophical ideas on the rights of individuals and the division of power. Additionally, French involvement in the American Revolution caused financial problems in France.
How Did the American Revolution Influence the French ...
www.reference.com/history/did-american-revolution-influence-french-revolution-66bd2207d0908ff6
People have said the causes for the French revolution are debatable.
"The causes of the French Revolution are complex and are still debated among historians. "
I asserted that it was due to taxes and hunger. You implied otherwise to get a dig in as is your wont.
Learn how to read Bob Huntley.
Funny but the good citizens of Habana took up a collection to pay the Continental Army's payroll. They were certainly closer to the colonies and personally took a more active role in the fighting. they however did not revolt from Spain until more than a century later. Were they less literate than the French? Did they not hear about the Revolution?
What is sad Bob is that you are a bitter old man, who takes advantage of women and who does not have much to do except be an inveterate America hater.
Anon
What is really sad Anon is that you believe so much garbage stuff that you are obsessed to the point of not being able to think clearly. I can see why you have such a warped sense of reality that comes out often in your "posts".
And you still missed the point.
You just doubled down on being a sad dope. That makes you a "double-dope".
Bobbie,
I backed my comments up with links. You linked once and didn't expound upon it. It was more like a drive by comment on your part.
American and French Revolutions were very different.
For example:
The American constitution allowed for state churches.
The French revolutionary leaders got rid of religion.
Anon
I know all that stuff about the American and French revolutions. You are still missing the point. You are thinking a bit too much about it and your mind has become boggled and seem not up to date with current events.
Anon
Anon
Yes you are.
Every comment I made was in response to asinine comments from you. In IT jargon you have a problem that is described using the acronym PEBCK
You said: "The American constitution allowed for state churches." yada, yada.
Absolutely nothing do do with my comment. You do have comprehension issues and learn nothing from interchange.
Everything.
The French Revolution was nothing like the American Revolution.
I dispute the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution to a great extent.
Occam's razor would say that it was famine and taxation.
Oh, and you gave yourself away. Thank you for the slip old boy.
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