As we all know, May 1968 in Paris was everything but calm. But even in this scenario May 13th deserved a lot of spolights. At that day, workers and students went together for the first time and promoted a general strike.
The movement was a success. Something like 800 thousand people (students, teachers and workers) marched through Paris demanding the end of Charles de Gaulle government. Another target of the protest was the police brutality during the riots that dominated the city since the beginning of that famous May. Even more, the one-day strike was transformed in a 20-day movement that spread all over France.
The government was in the corner and with no other choice proposed general elections for June. And then the unexpected happened again in 1968: the government had a big victory in the elections. It was just like if all the movemento of May in Paris just disappeared.
But that was not a big surprise. We were in 1968, remember?
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