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208 “ ‘Create two, three, many Columbias’ ” Ramparts, June 15, 1968.
CHAPTER 12: Monsieur, We Think You Are Rotten
209 “I shall die sometime.” Life, January 19, 1968.
210 “France is bored.” Le Monde, March 15, 1968.
210 “British their financial and economic crisis.” Paris Match, March 23, 1968.
211 American companies, with $14 billion. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, The American Challenge (New York: Atheneum, 1968), 3.
211 “for it defines our future.” Ibid., 32.
212 “Che Guevara poster on his wall.” Life, May 17, 1968.
214 “to shut myself up with grief.” Anthony Hartley, Gaullism: The Rise and Fall of a Political Movement (New York: Outbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971), 155.
214 erecting makeshift barricades. Hervé Hamon and Patrick Rotman, Génération, vol. 1: Les Années de rêve (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1987), 43–44.
215 “it was not over.” Alain Geismar, interviewed June 2002.
216 “the consumer society that eats itself.” J. R. Tournoux, Le Mois de Mai du général (Paris: Librairie Plon, 1969), 23.
216 did not begin broadcasting until 1957. Gérard Filoche, 68–98 Histoire sans fin (Paris: Flammarion, 1998), 10.
216 “He understands the medium better than anyone else.” Life, May 17, 1968.
217 was again observed. Tournoux, Le Mois de Mai du général, 14.
217 rendered incapable of thinking. Dark Star, ed., Beneath the Paving Stones: Situationists and the Beach, May 1968 (Edinburgh: Ak Press, 2001), 9–10.
217 half as many degrees Tournoux, Le Mois de Mai du général, 48–51, 87.
218 “who had grown too old.” Alain Geismar, interviewed June 2002.
219 “worthy of Hitler’s youth minister.” Harmon and Rotman, Génération, vol. 1, 401.
219 in the old German style of obedience. André Harris and Alain Sédouy, Juif & Français (Paris: Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 1979), 189–91.
221 “would have been it.” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2002.
222 “ ‘we think you are rotten.’ ” Andrew Feenberg and Jim Freedman, When Poetry Ruled the Streets: The French May Events of 1968 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001), 8.
222 the CRS, to Paris. Tournoux, Le Mois de Mai du général, 25.
223 “who are waiting for the government to protect them.” Ibid., 30.
223 Georges Marchais wrote. L’Humanité, May 3, 1968.
224 “right moment and the right place.” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2003.
224 “pictures of each other on television.” Ibid.
225 “I would say ‘I don’t know.’” Ibid.
226 “no planning.” François Cerutti, interviewed June 2002.
226 He was a bureaucrat, not a policeman. Maurice Grimaud, En Mai fais ce qu’il te plaît (Paris: Éditions Stock, 1977), 21.
226 “astonished the police officials.” Ibid., 18.
226 “. . . covered with blood.” Le Monde, May 12–13, 1968.
226 “The way it did with the Black Panthers.” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2003.
227 flyers had been intended as a joke, Tournoux, Le Mois de Mai du général, 33–34.
227 “Everyone was talking.” Eleanor Bakhtadze, interviewed June 2002.
227 “freedom of today began in ’68.” Radith Gersmar, interviewed June 2002.
229 The Jewish Museum’s show, The New York Times, December 15, 1968.
229 “I was the media’s darling.” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2003.
230 “more importance than it deserves.” Tournoux, Le Mois de Mai du général, 94–95.
232 “That’s just the way it is.” Ibid., 246.
233 “we are going to do today.” Harmon and Rotman, Génération, vol. 1, 458.
234 the entire city of Berkeley. The New York Times, July 1, 1968.
235 “do it again in ’68.” Alain Krivine, interviewed June 2002.
235 “I no longer had any hold over my own government.” Hartley, Gaullism, 288.
235 “a position to give everyone advice.” Le Monde, June 27, 1968.
236 readers to fool them! Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Le Gauchisme: Remède à la maladie sénile du communisme (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1968), 11.
236 “reconstruct myself.” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, interviewed March 2002.
237 are always going to the university. Harmon and Rotman, Génération, vol. 1, 420.
CHAPTER 13: The Place to Be
238 would not have been allowed to win. Harry Schwartz, Prague