French: 1968

Question 1

Historiography

Answer 1

• Raymond Aron argues that the student revolts were merely a psychodrama from bourgeois students
• Louis Gruelle argues that rising group of working and lower middle class going to university for the first time

Question 2

Night of barricades

Answer 2

10-11 may

Question 3

Legislative elections of June 1968

Answer 3

UNR wone 300 out of 487 seats

Question 4

Worker discontent

Answer 4

• Unemployment at 500,000 by 1968, highest since before the war
• CGT not representative
• 10 million workers eventually came out on strike

Question 5

Increase in student population

Answer 5

-The number of students in French universities had increased from 200,000 to 500,000 between 1960 and 1968