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Source: RTÉ Radio 1 "World Report"

Roundup

4-1-06

French Protests Hark Back to Revolutionary Times [4min]

Hugh Schofield reports from Paris on how in the current dispute between over youth job contracts, the public and the French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, can be likened to the Jacobins and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Read entire article at RTÉ Radio 1 "World Report"