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As the march against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms made its way along the Grands Boulevards north of Paris, a group of women began singing and dancing in the dense crowd.
Above the sound of police sirens, protester chants and the clatter of teargas grenades, the music was familiar; the words were not. A female activist group calling itself Les Rosies – after Rosie the Riveter, a feminist symbol of working women – had rewritten the 1990s hit Freed from Desire by the Italian singer Gala with French lyrics.
“Women on Fire! The government is failing Women on Fire! We’re in the
