Nationwide Protests in France Force Museums to Close

On Thursday, a nationwide strike in France brought the country to a standstill. Public transportation was largely not running as 180,000 demonstrators flooded the country’s streets, and some 6,000 police officers were deployed to Paris amid anticipation that events would take the same violent turn as last year’s Yellow Vest protests, which left nearly 2,000 civilians wounded and the Arc de Triomphe vandalized.
Because of the protests against resident president Emmanuel Macr