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French protesters march during a demonstration of teachers, students and researchers against government reforms in higher education on February 10, 2009 in Paris. Protesting French students joined forces with teachers to push President Nicolas Sarkozy to abandon contested reforms, amid fears the movement could touch off wider social unrest. Lecturers on both the political left and right have been staging sporadic strikes for several weeks in faculties and research labs across the country, in protest at government plans to overhaul their working conditions. Sign reads "Pecresse harmful to culture." Valerie Pecresse is the French higher education and research minister.
