Xref: utzoo soc.culture.french:4762 trial.soc.culture.italian:143 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!corton!loria!muller.crin.fr!chenevoy From: chenevoy@muller.crin.fr (CHENEVOY) Newsgroups: soc.culture.french,trial.soc.culture.italian Subject: Re: May Day Message-ID: <3706@loria.crin.fr> Date: 2 May 91 14:20:51 GMT Article-I.D.: loria.3706 References: <1991May2.011003.21899@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> Sender: news@loria.crin.fr Reply-To: chenevoy@muller.crin.fr (CHENEVOY) Followup-To: soc.culture.french Lines: 16 In article , poesio@cs.rochester.edu (Massimo Poesio) writes: |> |> I also remember that May 1st was chosen to remember a big demonstration |> at the end of which, as Philippe writes, there was a big massacre: |> I'm pretty sure however that the demonstration took place in the US, |> I think at the beginning of the century. Le massacre (9 tue's par l'arme'e) a` eu lieu a` Fourmi dans le Nord de la France a` la fin du sie`cle dernier (1891). Il y a` eu cette anne'e une grande manifestation pour come'morer le centennaire de ce triste e've'nement. -- ***************************************************************************** * Yannick Chenevoy | Qu'est ce qui est plus con que l'armee?* * e-mail: chenevoy@loria.crin.fr | Deux armees !! * *****************************************************************************