The next week, students overran Paris and set fire to the stock market, sparking a general strike that almost brought down the government. “Sous les pavés, la plage” was one of their slogans (“Underneath the paving stones, the beach”); “Marx Mao Marcuse” was another. Everyone knew who Marx and Mao were. But who was this Marcuse? Imagine the shock upon discovery that he was a teacher at the San Diego campus of the University of California.
