France put 70,000 officers on the streets. 410,000 people still came.

France’s Interior Ministry counted 410,000 people at 289 actions on Saturday, including 110,000 in Paris, despite a deployment of 70,000 police and gendarmes. The operation sharply reduced looting and other damage compared with the previous weekend, but it did not end the movement: unions and protest groups called for another national demonstration and a November 5 strike. The coalition now reaches beyond the students who began it, joining anger over wages, living costs and public services at a moment of tight public finances and approaching elections.

A second national protest drew 410,000 people despite an exceptional security operation, showing that France’s cost-of-living and public-service anger has outgrown the student movement that sparked it.