Paris146,000 marched across France for a fourth weekend.
Unions count 250,000 marchers, against the interior ministry’s 146,000.
High school students began the protests in September over classroom conditions, and unions added wage demands.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu meets unions Monday, and students and teachers strike Tuesday.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 250+ reports worldwide
- Al Jazeera Online leans critical
- foregrounds the interior minister's 'ready and waiting' warning and the 70,000 security deployment, with the 200-person attack on officers
- France 24
- places the cost-of-living protests against the presidential election five months away, where the far right has its best chance yet
- Deutsche Welle
- notes turnout fell below the 170,000 authorities expected and lists clashes in Toulouse, Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux with 350 arrests
Sources: France 24, Al Jazeera Online, Deutsche Welle