FRENCH LEGISLATIVE ELECTION, 1968.

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1968.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
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COUNTER DEMONSTRATION BY DE GAULLE SUPPORTERS. Paris, 30 May 1968.

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas. 
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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).

1st of May 1968. Paris.

All photos by Simos Tsapnidis, 1968
Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
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Greeks protesting against greek military regime. Paris, 1968

All Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967
Copyright Manolis Daloukas
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On April 21, 1968, at Parisian streets, hundreds of Greeks, protested against greek military regime (Junta). Most of them were students (and a part members of  Rigas Ferraios organization). They were carrying Greek flags,and protest banners with written slogans like "Vive la Resistance du peuple Grec" .

Andreas Papandreou. Press Conference after his arrival in Paris. 1968

  


When the Greek Colonels led by Georgios Papadopoulos seized power in April 1967, Andreas Papandreou was incarcerated.
 Under heavy pressure from American academics and intellectuals, such as John Kenneth Galbraith, a friend of Andreas since their Harvard days, the military regime released Andreas on condition that he leave the country.

All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis

Aguigui Mouna, and his followers. Paris, 1968

Born André Dupont (1911-1999), Aguigui Mouna's first manifesto was to remain on a tree for 16 hours in Golfe-Juan in 1956. Known in Paris all around the "Quartier Latin" (universities district in Paris), you often saw him on a bicycle with a red phone, selling his self-edited mag "Le Mouna Frères". He was nominated "chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" by the minister of Culture Jack Lang. His philosophy was a mix of anarchism, ecology, peace and humour!
(Phtograph by Simos Tsapnidis,1968)