Alain Luc Finkielkraut is a French essayist, radio producer, and public intellectual. Since 1986, he has been the host of Répliques, a talk show broadcast weekly on France Culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Académie Française in 2014.
According to the French National Institute of Statistics INSEE, the 2021 census counted nearly 7 million immigrants in France, representing 10.3% of the total population. This is a decrease from INSEE statistics in 2018 in which there were 9 million immigrants in France, which at the time represented 14% of the country's total population.
The Chinese diaspora in France consists of people of Chinese origin who were born in or immigrated to France. Chinese form the second largest Asian group in France after the Turks, with a population of roughly 600,000 as of 2017.
Francis Lalanne is a French-Uruguayan singer, songwriter and poet. He is the brother of composer Jean-Félix Lalanne and film director René Manzor.
Étienne Chouard is a French high school teacher, blogger, and political activist.
Algerians in France are people of Algerian descent or nationality living in France. People of Algerian origin account for a large sector of the total population in France. Some immigrated during colonial rule in Algeria starting in the 1920s, and large numbers chose to emigrate to France from the 1960s onwards due to political turmoil in Algeria.
European Parliament elections were held in France on 26 May 2019, electing members of the 9th French delegation to the European Parliament as part of the elections held across the European Union. The election featured two major changes since the 2014 election: the return to a single national constituency and the increase in the number of French seats from 74 to 79 upon the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Officially, 79 MEPs were considered to have been elected, including five "virtual" MEPs who did not take their seats until the UK formally left the EU. The election featured 34 separate electoral lists, a record number at the national level.
The Yellow Vests Protests or Yellow Jackets Protests or Yellow Vests Revolution are a series of populist, grassroots weekly protests in France that began on 17 November 2018.
Priscillia Ludosky is one of the founders of the yellow vest movement. On 29 May 2018, she published an online petition about the need for 'lower taxes on essential goods, the implementation of the citizens' initiative referendum, lower pensions and salaries of senior officials and elected officials'. In September 2018, she sought more attention for the petition, eventually attracting national attention from Le Parisien.
Jacline Mouraud is a French activist credited as being one of the founders of the yellow vest movement. She rose to national attention as a result of a viral Facebook video she posted in October 2018 about France's proposed eco-tax to which she was opposed. Mouraud quickly found herself on regional and national television debating French MPs. Mouraud slowly became a divisive figure in the movement, being criticized by other yellow vest activists including Priscilla Ludosky and Eric Drouet, and the French media who have accused her of sharing of "fake news".
Marine Charrette-Labadie is a French political activist who was one of eight original spokespeople for the "yellow vests" movement. Her involvement predated the 17 November 2018 protests, when she served as a local organizer in Corrèze, New-Aquitaine in advance for Act I. Charrette-Labadie announced she was retiring from the movement at a national level on 28 November 2018 at a press conference in Brives. She was the sixth of the original eight spokespeople to announce their resignation. Charrette-Labadie continued to participate in the movement at the local level after withdrawing from the national movement.
Laëtitia Dewalle is a yellow vests activist. She has served as a media representative and local organizer in the Val-d'Oise, emerging in the movement in mid-November. She has been active in most of the Acts in the movement. In speaking to the media, she has been consistent in stating that they are biased, and that the movement is non-violent; she points out that violence in the protest marches are due to left and right wing extremists piggyback riding the movement.
Ingrid Levavasseur was an early participant of the Yellow vest movement and quickly emerged as one of its most visible spokespeople. She represented activists from Louviers, Eure, making multiple appearances on various media networks including TF1 and La Chaîne Info (LCI). After initially accepting and then rejecting a columnist position at BFMTV, she lost credibility with many in the movement. Maxime Nicolle would later call her out for being an opportunist.
Women have been involved in the yellow vests movement since its inception. This is a result of women on the whole being more affected by poverty in France than their male counterparts, in part because many are heads-of-household and need to take time off from paid employment to give birth to children. Their role is greater than most past social movements in France because of the economically precarious position that many women in the country find themselves in.
Gaspard Glanz is a French videojournalist.
Leïla Chaibi is a French politician. She was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019 on the list of La France Insoumise, and was re-elected in 2024. She presides over La France Insoumise’s delegation in the European Parliament.
Remigration, also called repatriation, is a far-right and Identitarian political concept referring to the forced or promoted return of non-ethnically European immigrants, often including their descendants who were born in Europe, back to their place of racial origin, typically with no regard for their citizenship. It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement in Europe. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some residents with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly-defined degree of assimilation into European culture.
Michel Sitbon is a French writer, publisher and journalist. He founded many collectives and associations defending freedom of speech, gender equality, right of asylum or the legalization of cannabis. He is also one of the co-founders of the Nuit Rwandaise, a review of experts for the truth about the Rwanda genocide.
On est là is a French protest song, inspired by the Italian song Che sarà, which was popularized in 2018 during the yellow vests protests. Originally a song of the supporters of the football clubs Olympique de Marseille and RC Lens, it is often sung during protests against policies of French president Emmanuel Macron, notably during the 2023 French pension reform strikes.
The True Debate was a French citizen debate organized from January 30 to March 3, 2019 within the Yellow Vests Movement, to decide at a national level on the political goals of the movement. It particularly highlighted the Citizen's initiative referendum (RIC) as the primary demand of the movement. The debate had 44,000 participants, with 1 million votes cast on 25,000 proposals, covering four main themes: the "deep transformation of the political system," "reinforcement of public services," "fiscal justice," and a "solidarity-based and accessible ecology."
