The magazine Le Point is one of the main media
outlets of the French conservative “centre-right”. One of its December
issues carries the cover title France Faces its History. 1648, 1789, 1830, 1848, 1871… four centuries of revolutions.
The cover features also a painting by Pierre-Jérôme Lordon, showing people clashing with the army at Rue de Babylone,
in Paris, during the Revolution of 1830. Perhaps this is where Luc
Ferry, Chirac’s former minister, got his idea from, when, two days ago,
he asked the Army to intervene and the police to start shooting and
killing Yellow Vests.
Do not be surprised if you haven’t heard this from your TV or if you
don’t know that the level of police repression and violence in France,
measured in people dead, injured and arrested, has exceeded everything
the country has experienced since 1968. Nor should you wonder why you
don’t know anything about some Yellow Vest’s new campaign calling for a
massive run on French banks. Or why you have been lead you to believe
that the whole thing is to do with fuel taxes or increasing minimum
wage.
