On the 12th December, The Guardian published an article entitled ‘If you want to understand the Gilets Jaunes you have to leave Paris’. The article had little by way of analysis, devoting itself to a standard ‘look at me I live in France’ one up man-ship. The ostensible topic, the Gilets Jaunes and questions concerning why now, who and where –
Yellow Vest: The Gilet Jaune and ‘France Profonde’
The yellow vest movement, gilet jaune, takes its fight for true democracy to the deep countryside of France.
