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Paris Protests of 1968
In May 1968, France was brought to a near standstill by protests that began with students objecting to the university system. A violent response by the police to the barricades erected around the Sorbonne flared into a much larger confrontation between the state and students and workers. At one point nearly a million protesters marched through Paris to demand the resignation of President Charles de Gaulle. Philippe Verm猫s was an art student at the Beaux-Arts university at the time.
He spoke to Witness about the posters he helped to produce that illustrated the frustration of the country's youth.
