I would just like to add that the french people don’t actually have grenade launchers on hand, since they are not sold in supermarkets here.

So we just march, shout, sing, hold signs, and get tear-gassed at some point. Admittedly we’re usually in the tens of thousands in medium sized cities and we sometimes burn a few cars and trash cans for good measure.

The last large protest was on September 18. and had between 500k and 1.1M protesters, according to the police and the protesters respectively.