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Fifty years ago this week, Paris erupted. Student protesters filled the streets and for many nights they battled with police. Trade unions joined the fray and called a general strike. France was paralysed. For nearly a month, parts of the city resembled a war zone.

Les Evenements of '68 - along with the huge demonstrations across Europe and the United States against the Vietnam War - were the biggest surge of anti-establishment feeling that modern Europe had seen. Our special correspondent, James Naughtie, looks back.

(Photo: Protest leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit sings the Internationale in 1968. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)