Reinterpreting 1968: the case of France

Boris Gobille argues that the often-cited locked gates at Renault-Billancourt were not necessarily typical, while as Xavier Vigna has shown, some industrial strikes called for more radical change, contesting management's right to manage.6 Reynolds emphasises that a multifarious '68 happened in the provinces, bearing a variety of practical demands belying the conventional emphasis on the Utopians of the Latin Quarter, ranging from employment in Brest to university reform in Strasbourg.7 A third genre of revisionism has been temporal, problematising the myopic concentration on the 'merry month of May'. [...]the notion that there is no legacy beyond a vague cultural liberalisation is debatable.