Bordeaux

Most major cities, Paris...

Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux have seen serious rioting.

The riot police, the CRS, are famous in France for their ferocious tactics and they've been accused of making things worse rather than better.

Nick Beek, the BBC's Europe correspondent, has been covering the disturbances right across France for the past few weeks.

But I do hear from my former company, I remember asking Rudy all the time, and he's like, there's nothing to see in the Amazon.

So I don't think we'd be going to the Amazon now through the river, but there's definitely lots to see in Bordeaux and the Rhone.

Well, the

Bordeaux is the one I was thinking of, I think.

You do Bordeaux.

I'm going to propose Amazon, but still, I still think there's something there.

Rudy should know because he built a raft on the Amazon.

But it is.

And who has confidence they would right anything when they are so unright as to exploit anything These moments of national turning for their own political ends.

And on the night of Monday, 19th of October, curfews came into force in Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Nice.

By Tuesday, the interior minister, Laurent Nunez, had 2,513 people in custody and 67 in prison.

He said this...

The papacy at this time was closely allied with France, some thought little more than her tool.

In 1305 the Archbishop of Bordeaux had been chosen Pope, chiefly by the influence of Philip IV, and from this time the papal court had been established at Avignon, a place which though not actually French territory was perilously near the lands of France.

Philip must undoubtedly have proposed this change of residence as a means of securing his own control over the head of the Church.

In 1323 John XXII, the Pope at the time, declared that to him belonged the right of sanctioning an election, that Louis therefore had taken his title of King illegally, and that all his decrees so far were null and void.

Villani says again, The judgment of God is not to be marveled at, for albeit Pope Boniface was more worldly than was fitting to his dignity and had done many things displeasing to God, God caused him to be punished after the fashion that we have said, and afterwards he punished the offender against him, not so much for the injury against the person of Pope Boniface as for the sin committed against the divine majesty whose countenance he represented on earth.

For the time being, however, Philip seems to have had everything his own way.

Benedict XI, 1303-1305, the next pope, was reconciled with him, and Clement V, 1305-1314, the Archbishop of Bordeaux who succeeded, was completely won over.

With Boniface VIII, says Bishop Creighton, fell the medieval papacy.

um services um on the second day of driving there and we had a coffee and a pan of chocolate and it was like proper good

Where was that? Was that just after we left Bordeaux?

The pan of chocolate was really good.

And it was a good coffee as well.

Yeah, crisp selection's good.

Really good.

But what we did do while we were out there, when we were in Bordeaux, we went to McDonald's and I managed to complete the cup selection, didn't

I?

I think we should be taking some of the world's nuclear waste if they're willing to pay for it, because we have an enormous landmass and we could quite safely store it.

I mean, it's being very safely stored in the hills of Bordeaux in France and elsewhere, very valuable real estate.

I mean, we've got huge swathes of pretty unproductive central Australia where all of a sudden you could turn it into multi-billion dollar square meterage.

I think we should be looking at that.

Okay, yeah, it makes sense.

There's not like a red tree and a green tree and a white tree there in Bordeaux.

Yep.

And, but the, okay, there's the 7-OH, which is the really problematic stuff that should be avoided.

But the final paragraph says, is entitled Colonial Demand.

A telegram affirming unfailing attachment to the cause of the Allies has been addressed to the President LeBrun, Marshal Pétain and the Minister of the Colonies at Bordeaux by representatives of the European and native populations of Madagascar.

Acceptance of the proposal for closer collaboration than ever with the British Empire is asked.

Fight on as allies was the urge in another message given by the French colony in Syria and Lebanon in a meeting held in Beirut.

Many hundreds of police officers and gendarmes were injured.

When we saw the images, we all thought, what was in their heads? How can French people do this to France? Why would the town hall of Libre be blown down, the tourist office? Why would the town hall in Marseille be invaded or the prefecture in Bordeaux? How can we have got there? There is nothing that justifies this, nothing that explains it, nothing that excuses it.

Pause there.

See, Emmanuel Macron himself can't believe it, can't understand why this would happen, who would do this, because why would French people destroy their own country? Well, that's been the question, Macron.