Small demonstrations by "yellow-vest" protesters have been seen throughout France for a sixth consecutive Saturday, but not on the scale of the ones seen in recent weeks, reports BBC News.
About 2,000 people were demonstrating in Paris at around 4pm, compared to about 4,000 last Saturday, police sources said.
Some 142 people have been arrested, including a protest leader, police say.
A man died in southern France, bringing the protests' overall death toll to 10.
His car hit a truck at a roadblock near Perpignan overnight on Friday, the authorities said on Saturday.
Protests have been dwindling since President Emmanuel Macron offered tax and salary concessions to the protesters earlier this month.
More than 38,000 demonstrators were protesting at 6pm throughout the country compared with 66,000 last Saturday, the interior ministry said.
There were some violent clashes on the Champs-Elysées in Paris as night fell, and 142 people were stopped and 16 detained, including a yellow-vest leader, Eric Drouet, Paris police said.
Despite this, traffic was normal and most shops, except for some luxury boutiques, were open for business in the run-up to Christmas.
French stores reported an average drop-off of 25% in sales compared with the same period a year earlier, junior economy minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher told French TV.
The palace of Versailles outside Paris and its gardens were closed as the authorities prepared for possible unrest there. Instead, protesters gathered in the Montmartre area of northern Paris for a small-scale demonstration.
There were other small-scale protests in the rest of the country, with hundreds of yellow vests briefly blocking trucks near the French-Spanish border before being dispersed by police.
Roadblocks were also reported in northern France near the border with Belgium.
Further demonstrations were planned around the country, though the movement seemed to be losing impetus in the run-up to Christmas.