FRANCE 24 English ‘Make cheese not war’: How Larzac protests in France inspired demos around the world • FRANCE 24

The author of a new book has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how the Larzac protests in France from 1971 became a modern-day template for demonstrations across the world. The protests began after the French government announced a huge extension of a military base on the Larzac plateau, referring to the farmers living there as “a few peasants” in “French Siberia”. This sparked much anger, and residents ended up swearing oaths never to be forced from their land, pioneering regional radicalism for years to come. The author of the book “Make cheese not war. Transnational resistance and the Larzac in modern France” is Andrew Smith. He spoke to us in Perspective.

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