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France 24
France 24
National
Paul MILLAR

'We're fed up': Paris students rise up in a movement that shows no sign of slowing

Cover image: French high-school students barricade the entrance of the Lycée Sophie Germain in Paris's Marais district on October 6, 2026. © Paul Millar, FRANCE 24

Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.

If the French government was hoping to drive its protesting high schoolers back into their classrooms with a whiff of tear gas, it hasn’t worked.

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