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So the precedent for this Tuesday, as you will remember, is the Gilles-Jon movement, the yellow-vest movement, which was an extremely powerful movement, which happened in Macron's first presidential term, which was an interesting movement because, on the one hand, it was sparked off by a relatively minor measure about gas prices and its relationship to ecology and the ecological transition.

But when the movement ballooned into a big mass movement was something that France had not seen for extremely long time.

It was not a movement that was a traditional labor union movement, it was not a traditional

left movement.

It was often very deeply rooted in, if you like, deep France, in the rural France, in the smaller towns of France.

It was, I would say, a plebeian movement in the sense of not being a strictly working class movement.

It also involved self-employed, small entrepreneurs, artisans, and so on.

It was a movement that was extremely deep in the sense that it brought into its perimeter

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