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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
National
Michael Fitzpatrick

France a nation on the boil after government's pension gambit

Central Paris on Thursday night. AFP - THOMAS SAMSON

The front pages of the French dailies look like a war zone on Friday morning, with images from motorway blockades, demonstrations, piles of blazing rubbish. On the political front, several opposition groups have promised to bring down the government.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon is smiling on the front page of right-wing Le Figaro.

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