Chapter 10 · 1968 to 1968
Beneath the Stones
Students pull up the cobblestones, ten million workers stop, the President vanishes for a day, and then a silent majority marches. The Revolution must keep students and workers together; the Law must outlast them.
- Map
- 20 districts
- Newspaper
- Free Press
- Street lighting
- Sodium and neon
The levels
- The Courtyard3 May 1968
- Night of the Barricades10 May 1968
- Ten Million13 May 1968
- The Odéon Republic15 May 1968
- The President Vanishes29 May 1968
- The Avenue30 May 1968
- Interlude 10
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Prologue
By the spring of 1968 the President had governed for ten years, the country was rich, and its students were bored and crowded into new campuses built in the mud.
If the interlude ended this way: The tower was occupied peacefully. The confrontation became a national story.
At Nanterre, the occupation of the tower had been peaceful and the minister's swim had made the national news. The students were organised and known.
If the interlude ended this way: It stayed a campus spat.
At Nanterre, the agitation had been contained, and the police had friends on every campus.
Otherwise
At Nanterre, the agitation had been noisy and not much more.
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The dead of Charonne were still remembered on the left.
Otherwise
Nobody expected anything to happen.
The factions
The Revolution
- The left parties
- Socialists, Communists and their leaders, who would take a government if one were offered.
- Action committees
- The groups of the far left, the barricade builders, impatient with everyone.
- The union
- Henri Sauvel's union and the striking works. It distrusts the students and needs them.
- Students
- Yann Morel and the assemblies, the poster workshops and the occupied amphitheatres.
The Law
- The government
- Prime Minister Georges Pomerol, the negotiator, and an old President.
- Army and gendarmerie
- The riot companies, the mobile gendarmes and, beyond the border, the army.
- The Prefecture
- Prefect Maurice Garnier's police. He asks his officers for restraint.
- General Intelligence
- Informants on the campuses and lists of names.
- The employers
- The owners of the works, who will pay to have them reopened.
Neutral factions
- Radio and television
- The state's television, its journalists on strike, and the radio stations broadcasting live from the street.
- Shopkeepers
- The newspapers
- The Church
- Parisians
Characters
- President Maurice Vernier
- Prime Minister Georges Pomerol
- Yann Morel, student
- Henri Sauvel, union leader
- Prefect Maurice Garnier
- Jean-Luc Barral, theatre director
- Nadia, metro driver
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Epilogue
If the Revolution won The Avenue
The barricades came down, but nothing in the city was quite as it had been.
Otherwise
Order returned with the summer holidays. The President left the following year.
One way “The Avenue” can end
The Prefect's letter to his officers was quoted for years after.
Otherwise
The Prefect's letter was forgotten.
Orange sodium lamps lit the new boulevards, and the cobblestones of the Latin Quarter were covered in tarmac.