Further to my
post about the “gilets jaunes” protests
in Paris, I went to the Champs-Élysées yesterday to have a look at the Arc de
Triomphe. Well—I didn’t get to go to the actual Arc, because they were
power-washing graffiti off it from Saturday’s rumpus:
I actually saw some yellow-vest types, but they
were vastly outnumbered by riot police, and things were quiet.
Further down the boulevard, there were other
signs of the weekend activity—
HSBC boarded up:
A perfume shop taking down the boards:
Société Général's ATM screens smashed:
And a notice telling customers an interior ATM
was available (except the bank was actually locked up, this being Sunday):
Louis Vuitton took the steel mesh route:
Not precisely on the Champs-Élysées, but nearby,
I found this graffito, which was appropriate to the protests. It invokes
modern-day (gilets jaunes) and
historic (sans culottes)
revolutionaries, and cries, “Death to the pigs”:
And something that heralds the fall of
civilization: a Five Guys—a really big Five Guys—right there on the Champs-Élysées. That's what people should be protesting:
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