France: May Day.

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May 01, 2023

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*La Liberté guidant le peuple, Eugène Delacroix, 1830, oil on canvas, Louvre, Paris.*

FRANCE. May Day.

As protests continue at home, Macron looks abroad, though not without trouble.

French unions prepared for a thirteenth day of demonstrations on 1 May, a historic day for worker protests. The moves follow Friday’s downgrade of France’s sovereign …

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