In the poor outer suburbs of France's major cities, a generation's alienation has erupted into violent loathing. They are at war, and they call it the "French intifada"

Demonstrations and strikes, uproar in the universities and the emergence of a new anti-capitalist party: is France on the verge of another May ’68?

In occupied France, how did artists and intellectuals respond to the presence of the enemy? And would we have done any better?

Andrew Hussey discovers the rebellious soul of the French literary establishment