More French Protest News

I just re-read the Washington Post article mentioned in my previous post and I especially liked the subtle Marie Antoinette/French Revolution allusion:

"Later, as screaming demonstrators ran from police water cannons and clouds of tear gas, men in business suits and women in fur coats watched from the balconies of luxury apartments high above the fray. Gray-haired diners at Les Freres Blancs restaurant sipped wine by candlelight, ignoring the frantic scenes unfolding outside the front windows."

Nice. Show the contrast between the underpriveleged, rioting masses and the upper class sitting in fancy restaurants eating cake.

So much for journalistic objectivity.