Mai 68

The French historian René Rémond, who died in 2007, summed up the answer to this question in a shocking phrase: sex, he wrote in 1987, entered politics in 1968! Does this aphorism imply that sex and politics, prior to that date, lived in separate spheres, intersecting only in the private lives of political actors and actresses?

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At the beginning of January 2021, students at the Sorbonne protested against the holding of «in-person» partial exams in most faculties, as announced a few days ago. If the French press is to be believed, the revolt is growing louder and louder, all the more so as the start of the 2020 academic year had already taken place in a climate of high tension, linked to the health situation and the difficulty of finding places in lecture theaters. While these material reasons have legitimately led some students to express their discontent, there are quite different, systemic reasons that should have prompted them to rise up much earlier, in an attempt to save an institution at the end of its reign, not to say at the end of the race. My experience at seven different universities bears witness to this.

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