A virtual tour of Paris, Mai 1968

A pivotal event of recent French history was the riots of 1968, when an act of disciplining students turned into weeks of upheaval that gradually involved all levels of French society. An excellent virtual tour, almost an online documentary of the era, has been created by Agnès Poirier for The Guardian. As you click on the numbers of a map, Poirier and two commentators tell how the events unfolded, illustrated by a slide show of modern day Paris. It's a formula which both teaches and gives joy those who simply in the mood to revisit the city. And sure enough, for an ironic note about the immutability of some aspects of the French character, while the narrators walk around the sites, they come across a present day demonstration.