The postponement of King Charles III's visit to France prompted an interesting conversation between Sophie and Patrice. While Charles has always captured Patrice's imagination, Sophie has a certain admiration for the late Queen Elizabeth.
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Caption 35 [fr]: une manifestation. -Ça faisait... Ça faisait pas bien quoi. Caption 35 [en]: a demonstration. -It wasn't... It wasn't a good look, right?
Sophie and Patrice discuss the retirement reforms in France and the mass protests opposing them. They also explain the role of President Macron in this controversial situation.
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Caption 27 [fr]: et j'ai traversé une manifestation avec mes paquets. Caption 27 [en]: and I walked through a protest with my packages.
A very unpopular labor law caused Parisians to protest near the Bastille before it was passed in 2015. President François Hollande invoked Article 49-3 of the Constitution to force this law through. The protests continued after the law was successfully enacted in 2016. For more information, you can visit the Nuit Debout and Convergence des Luttes websites.
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Caption 40 [fr]: qui n'étaient pas directement liées à la manifestation. Caption 40 [en]: that was not directly linked to the protest.
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