Morning live blogs framed Saturday as acte IV of the cost-of-living movement, with unions, lycéens and returning gilets jaunes expected at 170,000 nationally and 40,000-60,000 in Paris under 70,000 police. Coverage noted persistent lycée blockades, a new education strike call for Tuesday, and testimony from Maïssa, 18, blinded in one eye at Mulhouse on October 17. The Paris cortège left République for Nation around midday, with only a small gilets jaunes sit-in at Concorde despite bans. Beauvau quickly claimed a “net recul” and a calm, controlled day, with final counts split at 146,000 per Interior against 250,000 per youth intersyndicale, 46,000 in Paris, 232 arrests and late tensions at Nation.
Attention then shifted to Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Bourget rally, where he refused to soften his line and pitched a Sixth Republic six months before the presidential vote, ahead of Monday’s Matignon social conference.