Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / GettyPeople gather on and around a statue in the center of Place de la République at the end of a demonstration on a day of nationwide protests organized by high-school students and joined by unions and teachers, who for days have been demanding better learning conditions, in Paris, on October 6, 2026.Stephane Mahe / ReutersFrench high-school and university students attend a demonstration on a nationwide day of protests and blockades, in Nantes on October 6, 2026. Demonstrators are voicing their anger over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages, underinvestment, dilapidated school buildings, recent police actions, and more.Olivier Chassignole / AFP / GettyRiot police watch a fire at a makeshift barricade set up by protesters during a demonstration organized by high-school students in Lyon on October 6, 2026.Philippe Lopez / AFP / GettyRiot police charge protesters at the end of a student demonstration in Bordeaux on October 6, 2026.Lou Benoist / AFP / GettyRiot police face protesting students who carry out a blockade outside Lycée Le Corbusier, in Aubervilliers, Paris, on October 1, 2026.Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP / GettyA youth is detained by a riot police officer in Nancy on October 5, 2026.Tom Nicholson / GettyStudents block the road outside Sciences Po during a protest on October 7, 2026, in Paris.Lou Benoist / AFP / GettyProtesting students gather and hold placards as they blockade part of Lycée Turgot in Paris on October 5, 2026.Yves Herman / ReutersCarole Zerbib, the principal of Lycée Vauquelin, talks with journalists in front of the school’s damaged entrance doors and a pile of bicycles and garbage bins set on fire by protesters, in Paris, on October 5, 2026.Jean-Francois Badias / APStudents tear down a traffic light next to Lycée César Baggio, which was blocked in protest of the government’s release of next year’s draft budget, in Lille, on September 29, 2026.Christophe Archambault / AFP / GettyA police officer aims a riot-control weapon during a demonstration in Bordeaux on October 6, 2026.Yves Herman / ReutersProtesters walk through tear gas amid clashes at Place de la Nation during a demonstration in Paris on October 6, 2026.Thibault Camus / APPolice officers spray students with pepper spray near Sciences Po as they protest under-resourced schools, in Paris on October 7, 2026.Ed Jones / AFP / GettyA student protester stands beside a barricade near Lycée Déodat de Séverac in Toulouse on October 1, 2026.Sarah Meyssonnier / ReutersRiot police detain a protester on the Boulevard Saint-Germain during a demonstration outside Sciences Po in Paris on October 7, 2026.Olivier Chassignole / AFP / GettyRiot police officers stand as fireworks go off above them during a demonstration in Lyon on October 6, 2026.Ed Jones / AFP / GettyProtesters shield themselves from tear gas fired by riot police during a demonstration in Toulouse on October 6, 2026.Ed Jones / AFP / GettyProtesters march during part of a nationwide protest movement, in Toulouse, on October 6, 2026.Ed Jones / AFP / GettyProtesters rally in Toulouse on October 6, 2026.Tom Nicholson / GettyStudents raise their hands in front of riot police officers as they demonstrate outside Sciences Po on October 7, 2026, in Paris.on Thibault Camus / APStudents chant in front of a blockaded high school as they protest against under-resourced schools, in Paris, on October 7, 2026.
