It is perhaps a global issue, but it has not much to do with Paris. I live in one of the "rich" towns mentionned in the article (Rennes) and the unemployment ra

It is perhaps a global issue, but it has not much to do with Paris. I live in one of the "rich" towns mentionned in the article (Rennes) and the unemployment rate is an incredibly high 15%! The article is IMO more about a state that had killed the private sector, which was previously providing good jobs. Now as you say, the middle class who made every efforts to get the magical "Master in something", still do not have access to state sponsored housing and do not either find any of the highly qualified jobs that were promised by countless politicians. The citizens whose parents emigrated decades here ago, are very angry toward the state, even if they live in state social housing, because they have no jobs either and they live constant harassment by police forces.