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You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me, Lisa Loi.

And today we're going back to May 1968 when France was brought to a near standstill

by widespread student protests and a general strike.

The French demonstrations of 1968 started in Paris in early May. They had been prompted by a standoff between students and the administration

at Nantesterre University just to the north of the capital. But they soon spread to include

cities and towns across the country as the students were joined by striking workers.

Here come the rocks, here come the pieces of paving stone that are being held through the air.

Oh, this, oh man's just been carried past me streaming with blood, wounded in my head by one of these paving stones.

It was an atmosphere of

an insurrection. The country was on the brink of civil war.

Jean-Claude Pruvo was a young ride police officer in Santo Meer

north of Paris in 1968.

On the 23rd of May, he was sent to the Boulevard Saint-Michel in the Latin Quarter.

It was one of the so-called Knights of the barricades, a standoff between policemen and students.

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