Fear grips Élysée Palace as yellow‑vest protest grows

More than 150 schools and France’s oldest university were blockaded today amid an escalating revolt against President Macron. Demonstrators, many of them teenagers, put up barricades in front of sixth-form colleges in Paris and other cities as they joined a movement that began as a protest against fuel duties but which is now a general expression of discontent with Mr Macron and the ruling class.-- More...