Police Clash With Antigovernment Protesters as Unrest Sweeps France

More than 1,385 people were detained across the country, hundreds of them in Paris

PARIS—More than a hundred thousand people took to the streets in a fourth consecutive weekend of protests in France, some waging pitched battles with police, as the unrest paralyzed the French capital and piled pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to roll back his economic overhauls.

Violence erupted in pockets across Paris, from the torching of cars and smashing of storefronts near the city’s theater district, to the Champs-Élysées, where protesters pried cobblestones from the famous avenue and threw them at columns of police....