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1934: 6 February 1934 crisis, an anti-parliamentarist street demonstration in Paris organized by far-right leagues that culminated in a riot; 1936: General strike by one million workers; 1947: 1947 strikes in France, a series of insurrectional strikes; 1958: May 1958 crisis in France; 1961: Algiers putsch of 1961
Gare du Nord, one of Paris's seven large mainline railway station termini, is the busiest train station outside Japan. [1] Paris is the centre of a national, and with air travel, international, complex transport system. The modern system has been superimposed on a complex map of streets and wide boulevards that were set in their current routes ...
Les Halles street market in 1920. Continuing, The population of Paris had been 2,888,107 in 1911, before the war. It grew to 2,906,472 in 1921, its historic high. [6] Many young Parisians were killed in the First World War, though a smaller proportion than from the rest of France, but this ended the steady population growth Paris had had before the war, and caused an imbalance in the ...
A general strike is set to take place across France on Thursday 23 March 2023
Camblanes-et-Meynac, France The motorcycle she was a passenger on hit a vehicle in a town south of Bordeaux. While Barrault died, the driver of the motorcycle did not need to be evacuated from the vehicle and survived the crash. Roland Barthes: 1915 1980 64 years French philosopher pedestrian Paris, France
A union-led general strike on 13 May included 200,000 in a march. The strikes spread to all sectors of the French economy, including state-owned jobs, manufacturing and service industries, management, and administration. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country's workforce was on strike. [12]
Last month, a strike by oil refinery workers caused nationwide fuel shortages that disrupted lives and businesses. Striking subway workers shut down half of the Paris Metro lines Thursday, a ...
General Joseph Gallieni, the military governor of Paris in at the start of World War I in 1914. The outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 saw patriotic demonstrations on the Place de la Concorde and at the Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord as the mobilized soldiers departed for the front.