France has a proud tradition of protesting, and sometimes people lose their heads
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FILE - French war veterans march past the Washington Monument on the Place d'Iena in Paris, on July 19, 1926, in protest against the U.S. debt terms. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Jacques Monod, right, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for medicine, comforts a student who was wounded in her eyes during a night-long battle between police and students in the Latin Quarter of Paris, France, May 11, 1968, as a Red Cross worker calls for help. (AP Photo/Guy Kopelowicz, File)
FILE - Shepherds guide their sheep through the streets of Lyon, France Thursday, Oct. 15, 1998, to protest the presence of wolves in the French Alps area. (AP Photo/Patrick Gardin, File)
FILE - A child throws a pair of shoes onto a pile of footwear as part of a symbolic demonstration against anti-personnel mines, in Paris, Saturday, Sept. 25, 1999, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
FILE - A demonstrator wearing a yellow vest waves the French flag on top of a burning barricade on the Champs-Elysees avenue with the Arc de Triomphe in background in Paris, on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018, during a demonstration against the rising fuel taxes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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FILE - French war veterans march past the Washington Monument on the Place d'Iena in Paris, on July 19, 1926, in protest against the U.S. debt terms. (AP Photo, File)
