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The French Student Protesters Subverting Monuments Like It’s May 68

By Big New York · 10/21/2026 · Updated 10/21/2026

Demonstrators are upending the country’s public landmarks to denounce police violence, under-resourced schools, and a worsening cost-of-living crisis. When students in France took to the streets in 1968 to protest the country's crumbling education system and Gaullist government, they transformed public statues into participants in their cause. After the May 2 shuttering of Paris Nanterre.

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Demonstrators are upending the country’s public landmarks to denounce police violence, under-resourced schools, and a worsening cost-of-living crisis. When students in France took to the streets in 1968 to protest the country's crumbling education system and Gaullist government, they transformed public statues into participants in their cause. After the May 2 shuttering of Paris Nanterre.

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