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The Place de la République in Paris is shown in the background with thousands encircling a monument in the middle of the square.

What French populists from the ‘50s can teach us about the ‘yellow vests’ roiling Paris today

December 10, 2018Global Politics

A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.

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