About 450,000 people joined the high school protests across France on Tuesday, organisers said, as hundreds of high schools were blockaded in a nationwide day of action.
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The protesters are campaigning against long hours, missing teachers and crumbling classrooms.
The French interior ministry’s figure is much lower: it said about 250,000 joined the protests, with 56,000 people reported in Paris.
But how did a few student blockades turn into a nationwide protest movement? Jon Henley, the Guardian’s Europe correspondent based in Paris, explains.
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