The local authority had banned any protest around the area where Macron was visiting but a court in the nearby city of Orleans overturned this ruling after complaints from rights groups. Historian, writer and author of Ideas Infonomia 1.59K subscribers Subscribe 6.7K views 9 years ago We are much less innovative today than we had been in some parts of the past. They made their dissatisfaction known by banging pots and booing within audible distance of the president, who at the end of his visit was flown back to Paris by helicopter. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. > Read more: A look back at when French protesters defeated government reform plans In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world.

'It's to wake up our president, so that he stops making fun of us,' said Bruno Vivien, a retired metallurgy worker who made his protest heard with a bugle. Hundreds of people had turned up banging saucepans - a traditional symbol of political protest in France - but Macron was instead whisked into the health centre in the town of Vendome that he was visiting.

Just over one year since he won his second mandate in office, his trip to the Loire region of central France saw no similar walkabout to meet area residents, an AFP correspondent said. A visit Macron made to eastern France last Wednesday was marked by acrimonious face-to-face confrontations between the head of state and some inhabitants unhappy over the raise in the retirement age to 64 from 62 and his style of governance.

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