A government minister had to be evacuated during the attack, one of several violent episodes on the eighth weekend of demonstrations over economic woes.
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France Debates Where to Teach Arabic: Public School or Local Mosque?
Concerned that an increasing number of students are learning Arabic in mosques, the French state wants to take back control “to provide a secular curriculum.”
Yellow Vest Leader Is Arrested in France Amid Crackdown
Eric Drouet’s arrest, his second over his role in the protests, signals that the government is following through on a pledge to get tough.
Artwork Taken From Africa, Returning to a Home Transformed
A pivotal report calls for thousands of artworks to leave French museums and return to West Africa. An artist, a historian and a philosopher debate what should happen — and what these objects could mean to young Africans who have never seen them.
Macron Vows Order ‘Without Compromise’ in Rebuke to Yellow Vest Protests
President Emmanuel Macron of France urged his fellow citizens to “accept reality” and called for the protesters shaking the country over inequality to curb the disorder sown at demonstrations.
The Question for France: Where Do the Yellow Vests Go From Here?
Political groups are jockeying to capture the energy of the protest movement. But whether it can be given a more coherent shape remains uncertain.
Critic’s Notebook: France’s Yellow Vests Reveal a Crisis of Mobility in All Its Forms
Mobility is the story of globalization and its inequities. But it is more than trains and automobiles: It includes social and economic movement, too.
What Next for France’s ‘Yellow Vests’?
For five weeks, demonstrators have marched in Paris and beyond, staging a nationwide rebellion against President Emmanuel Macron. We went to the French countryside, where the movement began, to find out whether the leaderless campaign could win longsta…
France’s Yellow Vests Confront Macron With a New Reality
The survival of Mr. Macron’s presidency may no longer be at stake, but its shape and direction seem certain to change.
In Paris, ‘Yellow Vest’ Protests Cut Sharply Into City’s Luxury Trade
Several weekends of violent demonstrations across France have hit the capital’s sellers of high-end goods hard during the year’s most important shopping period