Tension during this year was defused by police chief Maurice Grimaud.
Tension during this year was defused by police chief Maurice Grimaud. In this year, the leader of the 22 of March Movement, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, became known as "Danny the Red". During this year, the minimum wage was increased 35% by the Grenelle Agreements, and a national president met with Jacques Massu in Baden-Baden after leaving his country and drawing rebukes from Georges (*) Pompidou for fleeing. In this year, the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life inspired spontaneous labor strikes, and Sorbonne students took over public buildings in the Left Bank area of Paris. For 10 points, name this year in which protests in May nearly brought down the last de Gaulle government in France, the same year as Prague Spring.
Tension during this year was defused by police chief Maurice Grimaud.
1968 [accept answers referring specifically to May 1968; prompt on 68]