Hugh Schofield
Paris correspondent
The question that needs to be asked about the French protests is this: are they simply the latest iteration of the country’s regularly-expressed habit of on-street action, or is there something deeper and more significant happening?
On one level, the movement looks very like what has so often gone before: the cause, the march, the wrecking, the tear-gas, the arrests, the cries of police brutality.
It is a form of theatre with its pre-set scenes, and a final act that is played out when everyone feels they have had enough. Practically every autumn there is some issue or another in
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