Il est interdit d'interdire !

Written on a wall in Menton, France

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]

  1. ^ "Jean Yanne - Video". Dailymotion. 2008-03-28. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  2. ^ Arnaud, Nicolas (2015-08-20). Le Bac Histoire Pour les Nuls, nouvelle édition (in French). edi8. ISBN 9782754081597.
  3. ^ "LES MURS PARLENT". Le Monde.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-09-30.