Protestors in this month and year are sometimes referred to as soixante-huitards, a byword for idealistic radicalism. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this month and year during which the French Fifth Republic was racked by student protests and general strikes.
ANSWER: May 1968 [accept Mai 1968 or mai mille neuf cents soixante-huit or mai dix-neuf cents soixante-huit]
[10m] In May 1968, this student protest leader known as “Dany le Rouge” was deported to Germany. He later served as Frankfurt’s deputy mayor for multicultural affairs and became the first Member of European Parliament elected separately in two different countries.
ANSWER: Daniel Cohn-Bendit
[10h] This phrase appears on a poster from the May 1968 protests that depicts a shadowed Charles de Gaulle holding his hand over the mouth of a young man. The French feminist movement repurposed this phrase by substituting in the word “beautiful.”
ANSWER: “Be young and shut up” [or “Sois jeune et tais-toi”] (French feminists adopted the slogan “be beautiful and shut up,” and the original phrase comes from the 1958 movie Be Beautiful but Shut Up.)
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