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:
“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world—and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish—she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war!”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)