France is no stranger to protests that degenerate into violence, but for years, pundits have offered a ready narrative to explain them.
Student demonstrations are provoked by budget cuts to education, they say. Economists connect protests in the poor banlieues of France’s big cities to economic inequality and state failure. Historians draw intricate analogies to May 1968 or to the French tradition of “Jacquerie,” the centuries-old peasant revolts against the ruling class.
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