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fold-out season guide, 2008. Provides details of events held across London between April and June 2008. The events of May 1968 gave a profound psychological shock to de Gaulle’s Presidency and the Fifth Republic. A student rebellion at Paris’s prestigious Sorbonne University sparked a general strike of roughly ten million workers. Scenes of factory and university sit-ins as well as mass demonstrations and street-fighting suggested a profound political radicalisation of both the labour and students’ movements and the events of Mai 68 are regarded as an important catalyst for the French women’s movement.