France
- 2005 civil unrest in France – mainly Paris, but also in other high-immigrant areas.
- Perpignan (2005) – Perpignan Riots between North African and Roma communities after a man of North African descent was shot dead.
- Avignon (September 2009) – between Turkish and Moroccan youths (one young of African descent was dead)
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Famous quotes containing the word france:
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“But as some silly young men returning from France affect a broken English, to be thought perfect in the French language; so his Lordship, I think, to seem a perfect understander of the unintelligible language of the Schoolmen, pretends an ignorance of his mother-tongue. He talks here of command and counsel as if he were no Englishman, nor knew any difference between their significations.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“While learning the language in France a young man’s morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)