100,000 people are expected at protests across France on Wednesday as part of the so-called 'Block Everything' movement against the government and the budget.
Hundreds of people have already been arrested by police at demonstrations up and down the country.
The planned protests come on the day the new prime minister Sebastien Lecornu will officially take office after François Bayrou's government collapsed on Monday.
Ross Cullen reports.
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