COUNTER DEMONSTRATION BY DE GAULLE SUPPORTERS. Paris, 30 May 1968.

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas. 
Archive Simos 1968/118 all photos in High Resolution.

On 29 May, De Gaulle left France for Baden-Baden in West Germany. Rumours spread that he had resigned or that there had been a military coup. In fact, De Gaulle was talking to the French military high command, making sure that they would support him.

The next day a carefully managed, but huge, counter-demonstration by De Gaulle supporters blocked the Avenue des Champs Elysées. The President called early elections (which he won easily the next month).