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People who played an active role in May ‘68 pleaded in favour of getting rid of the distance created by ‘vous’ and doing away with hierarchy,” says Prof Bert Peeters, of the French and Francophone Studies department at Macquarie University in Australia, co-editor, of Tu ou vous: l’embarras du choix - Tu or vous: an awkward choice.
BBC News - Tu and Twitter: Is it the end for ‘vous’ in French?