Free Republic

"It’s the revolution!” one of my good friends said when I phoned him from the Paris airport yesterday morning. Students around the country are continuing their “strike” to protest proposed new legislation that would allow employers to fire young people under the age of 26 during the first two years they are on the job. In Aix-en-Provence, hundreds of young people trekked from their trendy provencal campus to the main autoroute on the outskirts of town and shut down traffic this morning. On Tuesday, an estimated two million people took to the streets in dozens of cities across France. The...