This is The Guardian. Today France plunges into crisis as the government collapses again.
On Monday, French lawmakers filed into the National Assembly in Paris.
The embattled Prime Minister Francois Beirut had called a confidence vote on his unpopular austerity budget,
and with it had rolled the dice on his own political future.
So there were raucous scenes in the French Parliament.
Francois Beirut took to the stands to make a long speech about how France was at risk of being submerged by a swamp of debt.
But he was heckled by opposition politicians.
He then said afterwards that he wouldn't reply to insults,
that he thought that this was a lamentable kind of image of violence and contempt in politics.
Beirut's gamble fails.
194 against 354.
The budget was crushed and within hours he was gone,
the third French Prime Minister in a year to fall.
Francois Beirut has lost the confident vote in the National Assembly and will now need to tender his resignation.
Outside town halls across the country, protesters staged mock goodbye drinks.
waving signs, reading bye-bye Beirut and popping open bottles of wine.
And today there's more.
A national day of action will see strikes,
universities shut down and roads blockaded across the country in what could be a fresh wave of mass protests for France.
For Emmanuel Macron, it's another storm in a turbulent few years.