In France, anger at President Emmanuel Macron has revived a centuries-old protest tradition: banging pots and pans
Last month, after French President Emmanuel Macron raised the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64 over bitter opposition, he gave a televised speech calling for “one hundred days of healing” through meetings and dialogues between the government and its opponents.
The casserolade contagion has since enveloped Mr. Macron himself, whose first public appearances after his speech were also overwhelmed by pots and pans. Even corporations joined the melee. When the president remarked that banging on casseroles “will not advance France,” the French saucepan firm Cristel tweeted “Monsieur le Président, we make casseroles that do advance France.”
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