Officials have vowed zero tolerance for the violence that has marred the weekly protests since they began two months ago, deploying some 80,000 security forces nationwide.
Christian Dior is bringing forward a menswear catwalk show initially planned for January 19 to avoid protests in the French capital.
The number of protesters demonstrating in Paris keeps going down sharply as appeal for sixth straight Saturday protest across the country appeared to fall on deaf ears.
The protests against President Macron's economic policies continue despite his announcement to cancel the planned fuel tax hikes, raise the minimum wage and provide tax relief for pensioners in 2019.
Accused of committing violence in the past, residents of the country's vast suburbs are no longer silent over the government's economic policies as they begin to show up at yellow vest protests, causing more worries for the Macron administration.
The French president called the "yellow vest" protests that have been held around the country for over a month "forty years of malaise that have come to the surface."
Demonstrations making waves across Europe suggests disillusionment and a pushback against the political status quo.
Described as the worst upheaval since the 1968 student riots, the country's economy has received a battering worth one billion dollar.
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