Yellow vest protesters run through clouds of tear gas on the Champs Elysees in Paris, September 21, 2019. /VCG Photo
French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow vest demonstrators in Toulouse.
At least one arrest was made during the march, which started in the afternoon. It was led by demonstrators brandishing a giant banner which said "Fed up of surviving. We want to live."
They also burnt a parasol in front of a McDonald's outlet. In the capital Paris, some yellow vests joined a climate protest march.
The weekly protest came two days after the French government unveiled a draft 2020 budget with more than nine billion euros (10 billion U.S. dollars) in tax cuts for households.
French President Emmanuel Macron stands near a man who wears a yellow vest as he attends a meeting with local residents as part of the "Great National Debate" in Bourg-de-Peage near Valence, January 24, 2019. /VCG Photo
It includes five billion euros in tax cuts for some 12 million households already promised by President Emmanuel Macron, the result of a "great national debate" he held to try to address the ongoing protests.
Macron, who swept to the presidency in 2017 with a pledge to get the country back on a solid financial footing, was caught short by the "yellow vest" movement which accused the former investment banker of ignoring the day-to-day struggles of many French.
Demonstrations have been banned on the Champs-Elysees after protesters clashed with police on the famous Paris avenue on December 8 last year, in the early days of the yellow vest protests.
On that weekend, police detained 900 people, the most since the anti-government protests began.