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Radio France Internationale
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'Macron forced me to become more political': a tale of two Yellow Vests

Yellow Vest protestors march behind a banner reading "angry women" on 19 January, 2019. AFP - PASCAL GUYOT

Nathalie and Agnès joined France's anti-government Yellow Vest protests from the outset in November 2018. Sixty weeks of sometimes violent demonstrations failed to topple the President, but Emmanuel Macron inadvertently made them more politically aware, and they're now using that to vote him out of office.

Images of violent clashes between demonstrators and riot police in Paris and other big French cities made headlines around the world in late 2018 and early 2019.

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