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This week I was supposed to share a lot of things in my life. So many of you have reached out to me with various questions or questions, since President Macron finally spoke to us on Monday,

I do not fully know how much I do not speak about the Yellow Vests but from speaking with my students, it's clear that they are quite opaque to them. Of course you know I study Philosophy and love History & Politics Post a comment? Some people are scared, some people are suffering, some people are outraged, some people are excited, some people are fed up. I feel like I'm living history. God only knows how long this revolution will last.

 Today I want to share with you two things:

1- The origins of the clash

This very helpful article from FranceTVInfo.fr , written in French.

You will find this article on the subject of anger against the backdrop of Macron from, starting with the presidential elections back in May 2017. If you have questions about the article, just add them to the section everyone can benefit from the Q & A.

2- President Macron speech in French: video + transcript

Many of you asked where they could listen to President Macron's speech (in English) finally addressing the Yellow Vests on Monday December 10th. So I'm adding the video + below you'll find his "speech" written down word by word so you can easily follow.

Verbatim: Emmanuel Macron's speech against the "yellow vests"

"French, French, here we are together at the rendezvous of our country and our future. The events of recent weeks in France and overseas deeply troubled the Nation. They have mixed legitimate demands and a chain of unacceptable violence and I want to tell you right away: this violence will not be lenient.

We have all seen the game of opportunists who have tried to take advantage of sincere anger to mislead them. We have all seen the irresponsible politicians whose only project was to shake the Republic, seeking disorder and anarchy. No anger justifies attacking a policeman or a gendarme who is degrading a business or public buildings. Our freedom exists only because everyone can express their opinions, others may not share them without anyone having to be afraid of these disagreements.

When violence is unleashed, freedom ceases. Henceforth, calm and republican order must prevail. We will put all the means because nothing will be built sustainable as long as there are fears for civil peace. I gave the government the strictest instructions to that effect.

But at the beginning of all this, I do not forget that there is anger, indignation and indignation, many of us, many French language learning people can share it and that one, I do not want to reduce it to unacceptable behavior that I have just denounced.

It was first anger against a tax and the Prime Minister has responded by canceling and removing all the increases planned for the beginning of next year but this anger is deeper, I feel it just in many ways . She can be our luck.

It is that of the couple of employees who do not finish the month and get up every day early and come back late to go work far.

It is that of the single mother, widowed or divorced, who does not even live anymore, who can not afford to have the children looked after and to make ends meet and has no hope. I saw them, these women of courage for the first time saying this distress on so many roundabouts!

This is the modest pensioners who have contributed all their lives and often help both parents and children and do not fare.

It is one of the most fragile, people with disabilities whose place in society is not yet sufficiently recognized. Their distress did not start yesterday, but we ended up cowardly by getting used to it, and in the end, everything was as if they were forgotten, erased.

It is forty years of malaise that reappears: malaise of workers who do not find themselves there; malaise of territories, villages as neighborhoods where we see public services shrink and the living environment disappear; democratic malaise where the feeling of not being heard develops; discomfort with the changes in our society, secularism and shifting lifestyles that create barriers, distance.

It comes from far away, but it's here now.

No doubt we have not known for a year and a half to provide a sufficiently fast and strong response. I take my share of this responsibility. It may have occurred to me to give you the feeling that it was not my concern, that I had other priorities. I also know that I happened to hurt some of you by my comments. I want tonight to be very clear with you. If I fought to shake the political system in place, habits, hypocrisy, it is precisely because I believe more than anything in our country and that I love it and my legitimacy, I do not draw from any title, no party, no coterie; I only draw it from you, from no one else.

Many other countries are going through this evil living of ours but I deeply believe that we can find a way out of it all together. I want it for France because it is our vocation through history to thus open paths ever explored for ourselves and for the world.

I want it for all of us French language course because a people who divides so much, who no longer respects his laws and the friendship that must unite him, is a people that is running to ruin.

I want it too, because it is by foreseeing this crisis that I presented myself to your suffrage to reconcile and lead and that I have not forgotten this commitment and this necessity.

It is first of all the state of economic and social emergency that I want to declare today. We want to build a France of merit, of work, a France where our children will live better than us. This can only be done by a better school, universities, apprenticeships and trainings that teach young and old what it takes to live free and work.

The investment in the Nation, in the school and the training is unpublished and I confirm it.

We want a France where one can live worthily from one's work? On this point, we went too slowly. I want to intervene quickly and concretely on this subject. I ask the government and Parliament to do what is necessary so that we can live better from the beginning of next year. The salary of a worker at the SMIC will increase by 100 euros per month as of 2019 without it costing one more euro for the employer.

I want to get back to a good idea: that the extra work accepted is an extra income; overtime will be paid without taxes or charges from 2019. And I want a real improvement is immediately noticeable; that is why I will ask all employers who can, to pay an end-of-year bonus to their employees and this premium will not have to pay any taxes or charges.

Retirees are a precious part of our Nation. For those who receive less than 2,000 euros per month, we will cancel in 2019 the increase of CSG suffered this year; the effort that was asked of them was too important and it was not right. Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will present all of these decisions to parliamentarians.

But we must not stop there. I need our big companies, our most fortunate citizens, to help the Nation succeed; I will bring them together and make decisions in this direction as of this week. I know some would like in this context that I come back to the wealth tax reform but for almost 40 years it has existed; did we live better during this period? The richest left and our country weakened. In accordance with the commitments made to you, this tax has been eliminated for those who invest in our economy and therefore help to create jobs; and it has been maintained on the contrary for those who have a real estate fortune.

Going backward would weaken us even as we are recreating jobs in all sectors. However, the government and Parliament will have to go further to put an end to undue benefits and tax evasion. The leader of a Learn French Online company must pay his taxes in France and the big companies that make profits there must pay the tax, it is simple justice.

As you can see, we will respond to the economic and social emergency with strong measures, faster tax cuts, better spending control rather than setbacks.

I hear that the government is pursuing the ambition of the transformations of our country that the people chose 18 months ago; we have before us to conduct a profound reform of the state, unemployment compensation and pensions. They are indispensable. We want rules that are fairer, simpler, clearer and reward those who work.

But today, it is also with our collective project that we must reconnect. For France and for Europe. This is why the announced national debate must be much broader. For this, we must above all, assume all our homework together. The duty to produce in order to redistribute, the duty to learn to be a free citizen, the duty to change to take into account the urgency of our climate and budget debt.

To succeed, we must come together and address together all the issues essential to the Nation. I want questions about representation to be asked; the possibility of seeing the currents of opinion better understood in their diversity, a more just electoral law, the taking into account of the white vote and even being allowed to participate in the debate of citizens not belonging to parties. I want to ask the question of the balance of our tax system so that it allows both the justice and the efficiency of the country. I want to ask the question of our daily lives to cope with climate change: to stay, to move, to heat. And the right solutions will also emerge from the field.

I want to ask the question of the organization of the state, the way it is governed and administered from Paris, probably too centralized for decades. And the question of public service in all our territories.

I also want us to agree with the nation on what its deepest identity is, that we address the issue of immigration. We have to face it.

These fundamental changes that require deep and shared reflection require an unprecedented debate. It will have to take place at the national level in our institutions, everyone will have its share: government, assemblies, social partners and associations; you will have your share. I want to assure myself the coordination, to receive the opinions, to take the pulse of our country.

But such a debate is not only about institutional representatives; it must also take place everywhere on the ground and it is natural interlocutors, citizens who must receive requests and relay: they are the mayors; they carry the Republic on the ground. That is why I will meet the mayors of France, region by region, to build the foundation of our new contract for the Nation.

We will not resume the normal course of our lives, as too often in the past in similar crises, without anything being really understood and nothing changed. We are at a historic moment for our country: through dialogue, respect, commitment, we will succeed.

We are at the task and I will come back to express myself in front of you to realize.

My only concern is you; my only fight is for you.

Our only battle is for France.

Long live the Republic, long live France. "

Hopefully these two elements will help you see more clearly!

Remember if you have questions, add them to the comments 🙂