Il est interdit d'interdire !

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Il est interdit d'interdire ! (meaning "it is forbidden to forbid") is a French aphorism first used on an RTL broadcast by Jean Yanne in the form of a mocking joke.^[1] This sentence later became one of the slogans of May 1968.^[2][3]