What French populists from the '50s can teach us about the 'yellow vests' roiling Paris today
- Written by Charles Hankla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
Demonstrators march down Paris' Champs-Elysees Dec. 8.AP Photo/Michel EulerThe populist protests roiling France remind me of a similar anti-tax revolt that occurred in Paris nearly 65 years ago.
In January 1955, tens of thousands of French men and women gathered at the Porte de Versailles in Paris to express their disgust for the elites who had...
