The local authority had banned any protest around the area where Macron was visiting but a court in the nearby city of Orleans overturned this ruling after complaints from rights groups. They made their dissatisfaction known by banging pots and booing within audible distance of the president, who at the end of his visit was flown back to Paris by helicopter. > Read more: A look back at when French protesters defeated government reform plans Richard Florida is Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada, and is also Global Research Professor at New York University, USA. "It's to wake up our president, so that he stops making fun of us," said Bruno Vivien, a retired metallurgy worker who made his protest heard with a bugle. Richard Florida The Rise of the Creative Class Paperback 12 November 2019 by Richard Florida (Author) 113 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 27.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 31.29 2 New from 31.29 Paperback from 16.90 1 Used from 16.90 10 New from 28. Hundreds of people had turned up banging saucepans - a traditional symbol of political protest in France - but Macron was instead whisked into the health centre in the town of Vendome that he was visiting. Just over one year since he won his second mandate in office, his trip to the Loire region of central France saw no similar walkabout to meet area residents, an AFP correspondent said. A visit Macron made to eastern France last Wednesday was marked by acrimonious face-to-face confrontations between the head of state and some inhabitants unhappy over the raise in the retirement age to 64 from 62 and his style of governance.
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