Farmers' protests in France: a long and sometimes deadly history
The farmers' protests that brought parts of France to a standstill over the past week are the latest in a long tradition. RFI looks back at some memorable moments in more than a century of agricultural uprisings.
It began, as many things do, with wine.
The first time in France's modern history that unhappy farmers forced the rest of the country to take notice was in 1907.
That spring, winegrowers in t