About 400 people were arrested nationwide, interior minister Laurent Nunez said.
Mr Nunez said 110 marches drew about 550,000 people across the country.
Organisers, including the CGT labour union and students’ organisations, said about 800,000 demonstrators took to the streets.
Mr Nunez described troublemakers as “extremely violent, radical far-left groups” whom, he said, sought confrontations with police and targeted public buildings, including city halls and local government offices.
He said those groups have been joined by offenders willing to loot shops.
Most of those arrested are adults, he said.
Some incidents were still ongoing in central Paris on Saturday evening.
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