Yellow fever
Populist pangs in France
Bristow, Gabriel
http://www.eurozine.com/yellow-fever/
Date Written: 2019-09-06
Publisher: Eurozine
Year Published: 2019
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX23978
The 'gilets jaunes' are a complex movement that has grown from a distrust of France's elites towards demands for citizen-led democracy. Their invocation of the French Revolution has provided the movement with a powerful sense of popular legitimacy but, as Gabriel Bristow argues, contains contradictions of its own.
