PARIS — It was supposed to be the site of the biggest airport in western France, a hub for cargo traffic and Concorde flights.
But instead, it became the center of a utopian experiment and an entrenched protest camp, one that challenged the government of President Emmanuel Macron.
In 1970, 3,700 acres of fields and woodland near the village of Notre-Dame-des-Landes were chosen for the new airport to satisfy a need first identified in 1965.
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