It was a silent protest that made an impression in a by yellow vests dominated Paris. Five activists dressed as Marianne, and with bared breasts were a half-hour eye-to-eye with the police. Without a single word to say. Then they disappeared back into the crowd.

Marianne is practically the national symbol of France as a ‘goddess of freedom’. Her busts to get invariably a place of honour in town halls and courts. But today in Paris was to her a new role on the Champs-Elysées.