It’s quite possible that few English people remember the Sorbonne riots of May 1968. Just a few old farts who now realise that the roll-neck, Gitane-puffing students of yesteryear who occupied the Sorbonne, shouted at les flics on the Boulevard Saint‑Michel, and hurled cobblestones at Les Gendarmes are probably grandparents now. Sitting at home, wringin…
