First edition of Sous Les Paves La Plage by Gilles Caron. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some very minor shelf wear to the dust jack edges but the boards, spine and all pages are clean and intact. Text in French.

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Far from the imagery of Epinal, Gilles Caron restores to us the good vibrations, the blows of batons, the nights saturated with tear gas, the smoky amphitheaters and the hot streets left to their own devices. Caron is always there at the right time: the first cobblestones torn from the road on May 3, the joyful crowd gathered around Bartholdi's green lion on May 13 after the first nights of the barricades, the cars burned or the trees toppled, the farandoles accompanying the peaceful procession of May 29, the euphoria of the general strike, between the loudmouth of a worker with a vengeful fist, and Mademoiselle Âge Tendre of the CGT section, the drowned gaze of Pierre Mendès France at Charlety, the greedy forehead of Mitterrand in search of the Élysée, the back of De Gaulle, the counter-demonstration on the Champs-Élysées on May 30 and the intoxication of the Marseillaise around the Unknown Soldier. The events of May 1968 recounted through Gilles Caron's most famous report and by sixteen writers, actors, journalists, filmmakers, politicians... Sixteen original texts and one hundred and twenty illustrated or unpublished photographs.