I spoke too soon above. I'm staying just west of Etoile, and though everything was running as normal first thing, by mid-morning metro stations and lines in the area were closed, some roads blocked off, heavy police presence including water cannon and so on. Saw some demonstrators moving towards Etoile, but no signs of trouble. It's freezing, so I had a bracing walk all the way to Gare St Lazare with bag checks to get to the station. TV news was showing tear gas and water cannon in use on the Champs Elysées as the police try to move the remaining demonstrators off, about 15 minutes ago, but now it looks as though the area's mainly full of police and their equipment, with ordinary traffic moving round Etoile, with either demonstrators or rubberneckers standing around despite the rain

Thank you, your insights are helpful, been following it in various news papers but not very informative!

The only damage shown on the evening news tonight was one window of the ground level Sephora store at the Forum des Halles. The troublemakers were cleared out immediately and there was no looting.

Well my wife is back... Had to walk from d'Orsay to Gare du Nord and encountered quite a few yellow jackets. Most were ok, and you directly could see which to avoid : they wore maks, were agressive and already half if not more drunk by 4 PM.
Police were quite polite.

Oh, she could have just walked to Saint Michel and taken metro line 4 which ran all day with no interruption. :cool:

Welcome home John and Keith. I love Black putting and my mother made the best tripe.
Happy everyone of you arrived home safely

Yes, Mimi, we are home safe and sound.

Thin

I guess that means that Paris is safer now too?

Cheers -glad yous had a good time.