An estimated 1.28 million people demonstrated nation-wide on Tuesday against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to push back the retirement age to 64, the interior ministry said.
The figure suggests the demonstrations were some of the biggest in decades, slightly higher than the 1.27 million estimated during a previous round of protests against the reform on January 31.
The hard-left CGT union put the number of protesters at 3.5 million.
