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What Remains of 1968? Comments of an Ordinary Witness

After thirty years, anyone attempting to objectively evaluate the events of May 1968—the strikes, the occupations of universities and factories, the huge demonstrations and the riots—would find few living traces of these events. They have been transformed into historical accounts, a bunch of books, the TV commemorations of which France is so fond. In brief, they are all but dead history. Even the hedonistic aspects have not survived: show-business has turned them into commodities.

Today, in their fifties, some the former leaders of the student movement have become politicians, some ordinary journalists, some high-level bureaucrats, some wise businessmen—all of them...