Why was France so unpopular in mid 1995?

Question

(Little sister's homework assignment with no results found on Google - does anyone know the answer to this question?).

Answer 1

amidst a storm of political protest the French President Chirac insisted on doing Nuclear tests in the atoll Mururoa.

Answer 2

Probably due to nuclear tests Chirac announced would take place-and took place later that year-in some French Colony or province in the Pacific.

Answer 3

France was doing nuclear testing in the pacific.

Read more here http://www.fas.org/news/france/index95.h...

Answer 4

The French were interested in and planning on Nuclear testing in the Pacific, and eventually actually carried it out toward the end of the year I believe. It caused quite an uproar, as Nuclear testing always has when it comes to the eye of the International relations.

All the people above who have answered this question have said exactly what I have restated.