Mai 68 Posters and Art Prints

Trop Tard CRS - Mai 68 Paris

La Lutte Continue - Mai 68 Paris

Godard Truffaut Varda Rohmer Malle Rivette - French New Wave Cinema Legends

Godard Truffaut Varda Rohmer Malle Rivette - French New Wave Cinema Legends

Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Feminist Queen Design

Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Feminist Queen Design

The May 1968 events in France refers to the volatile, two-month period of civil unrest throughout France punctuated by demonstrations, major general strikes, and occupations of universities and factories. At its height, the events brought the economy of France almost to a halt. The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared civil war or revolution; the national government itself briefly ceased to function after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France for a few hours. The protests spurred an artistic movement, with songs, imaginative graffiti, posters, and slogans.

Alain Bashung // Francophile Retro Design

Arm The Working Classes

Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Feminist Queen Quote

Ruth Bader Ginsburg / When There Are Nine / Feminist Queen Quote

The best expression of liberty desires is this slogan "L'imagination au pouvoir" (All Power to the imagination) which became the legendary slogan of May 1968 uprising in France.

Jacques Brel / Retro Style Fan Design

Jacques Brel // Original Retro Style Fan Design

Yé-yé (French pronunciation: ​[jeje]) was a style of pop music that emerged from Southern Europe in the early 1960s. The term "yé-yé" was derived from the English term "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands. The style expanded worldwide, due to the success of figures such as the French singer-songwriters Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy. Yé-yé was a particular form of counterculture, deriving most of its inspiration from UK or American rock and roll. Additional stylistic elements of yé-yé song composition include baroque, exotica, pop, jazz, and the French chanson.

Yé-yé (French pronunciation: ​[jeje]) was a style of pop music that emerged from Southern Europe in the early 1960s. The term "yé-yé" was derived from the English term "yeah! yeah!", popularized by British beat music bands. The style expanded worldwide, due to the success of figures such as the French singer-songwriters Serge Gainsbourg and Françoise Hardy. Yé-yé was a particular form of counterculture, deriving most of its inspiration from UK or American rock and roll. Additional stylistic elements of yé-yé song composition include baroque, exotica, pop, jazz, and the French chanson.

Jacques Brel /// Original Retro Style Fan Design

Jacques Brel /// Original Retro Style Fan Design

The slogan "Be realistic, demand the impossible" was graffitied onto the walls of Paris in May 1968 during the students and workers uprising. The quote has also been attributed to Che Guevara the Argentinian revolutionary. It is a slogan of hope to break the mold of old ways of thinking, creating new vision of the future

Il est interdit d'interdire! is a French aphorism first used on an RTL broadcast by Jean Yanne in the form of a mocking joke. This sentence later became one of the slogans of May 1968.