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In many respects, society was traditionalist and repressive. Many factors contributed to a general weariness of sections of the public, particularly the student youth, which led to the events of May 1968 The huge demonstrations and strikes in France in May 1968 severely challenged de Gaulle's legitimacy.
9 December – President Charles de Gaulle's visit to Algeria is marked by bloody riots by European and Muslim mobs in Algeria's largest cities, killing 127 people. 14 December – The OECD is formed in Paris. 27 December – France sets off its third nuclear test blast at its atomic proving grounds at Reggane, Algeria.
According to Paul A. Silverstein, associate professor of anthropology at Reed College and author of Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation, and Chantal Tetreault, assistant professor of anthropology at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who has researched and written extensively on language, gender, and social exclusion in ...
The population of the city declined during the 1960s and 1970s (2,753,000 in 1962, 2.3 million in 1972) before finally stabilizing in the 1980s (2,168,000 in 1982, 2,152,000 in 1992). [1] In the 1950s and 1960s, the city underwent a massive reconstruction, with the addition of new highways, skyscrapers, and thousands of new apartment blocks.
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France portal; History portal; Geography portal; 1960s portal ... Pages in category "1960 in France" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
A new film adaptation of a 2000 memoir, "Happening," about a French woman's illegal 1963 abortion, trades the book's specifity for universal power.
The Third Republic from its Origins to the Great War, 1871-1914 (The Cambridge History of Modern France) (1988) excerpt and text search; Price, Roger. A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (1987) 403pp. 403 pgs. [ISBN missing] Robb, Graham. The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography, from the Revolution to the First World War (2007)