Today's papers in France

Mainstream news digest.

Taken from the BBC. you can read the rest of this article at the bottom of this page.

Le Monde carries a front-page photo of the Sorbonne protesters trying to stop riot police from entering a room in which they had barricaded themselves.
"Villepin barricades himself in", reads Liberation's front-page headline after the prime minister said the law to introduce the CPE would be put into effect.

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