Gendarmes hold demonstrators in check
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Gendarmes hold demonstrators in check
June 23, 1947
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.9 x 21 cm (6 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Overall: 18 x 22.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0357.0026
Inscriptions recto (typed on attached paper): 16335 A / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / GENDARMES HOLD DEMONSTRATORS IN CHECK / FORMING A CIRCLE AROUND A STRUGGLING GROUP / OF DEMONSTRATORS AGAINST THE NEW FINANCIAL / PROGRAM, POLICE HOLD THEM IN CHECK OUTSIDE / THE FRENCH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES IN PARIS, / JUNE 23, WHILE PREMIER PAUL RAMADIER / PRESENTED HIS PROGRAM INSIDE THE BUILDING. WORK STOPPAGES IN PROTEST AGAINST THE / PROGRAM LED PAMADIER TO NOTIFY HIS / CABINET THAT HE WOULD ASK FOR A VOTE OF / CONFIDENCE THE FOLLOWING WEEK. BEWIGGED / STATUE IN BACKGROUND IS THAT OF JEAN-BAPT[illeg.] / COLBERT, LEADING MINISTER IN THE REIGN OF / KING LOUIS XIV. / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO / GWW - 6/26/47 - 255 PEDT-STF-JL-PARIS / AB LIST GD NYWS MON SJ TMC PA MEX / 53
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