Forget 68: Entretiens avec Stéphane Paoli et Jean Viard (L'Aube poche essai)

by Daniel Cohn-Bendit

J'ai écrit Forget 68 parce que 1968 était un moment extraordinaire pour tous ceux qui l'ont vécu, ça a été un accélérateur de l'histoire, ça a changé beaucoup de choses, mais aujourd'hui, on vit dans un autre monde. Recourir toujours à 1968 comme si on pouvait le refaire, repartir comme en 14... non, oubliez ! » Daniel Cohn-Bendit

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 30, 2011

About the author

Cohn-Bendit was born in Montauban, France, to German-Jewish parents who had fled Nazism in 1933. He spent his childhood in Montauban. He moved to Germany in 1958, where his father had been a lawyer since the end of the war. He attended the Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim near Frankfurt, a secondary school for children of the upper middle class. Being officially stateless at birth, when he reached the age of 14 he chose German citizenship, in order to avoid conscription.
Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born 4 April 1945) is a German politician, active in France and Germany, and was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France. He was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the color of his hair). He is currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament, becoming "Dany le Vert" (French for "Danny the Green", because of his new fight for ecology).
In 2010, he was involved in founding JCall, advocacy group based in Europe to lobby the European parliament on foreign policy issues concerning the Middle East.