The Sorbonne Occupation Committee (French: ''Comité d'Occupation de la Sorbonne'') was a politically radical student group that occupied the

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during the

May 1968 events in France Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which ...

. The Sorbonne student occupation began Monday, 13 May, after the police withdrew from the

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.René Viénet (1968)
The Sorbonne Occupied
'. Enragés and Situationists in the Occupations Movement (Paris, May 1968). Translated by Loren Goldner and Paul Sieveking. On 16 May, upon hearing about the successful occupation of the

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factory at Nantes by the workers and students of that city,Sorbonne Occupation Committee (1968)
Communiqué
'. (Paris, May 1968). Translated by Ken Knabb. as well as the spread of the movement to several factories ( Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne in

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), the Sorbonne Occupation Committee sent out a communiqué calling for the immediate occupation of all the factories in France and the formation of

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