Paris protests
Minister: 95 arrests at French security law protests
In Paris, the site of the worst violence, 48 police officers or gendarmes were injured during Saturday's street clashes, the interior ministry said on Twitter.
Police headquarters reported 126 arrests and 11,000 checks on individual protesters.
About a dozen museums, including the Grand Palais, cultural sites such as the Opera and shops in central Paris have also been ordered by police to close over fears of violence.
In announcing the decision, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said anyone would have 'to be deaf or blind' not to see or hear the roiling anger on the streets over the policy.
The suspension will be accompanied by other measures aimed at calming two weeks of nationwide demonstrations by the protesters, the sources said.
The 'yellow vest' protests began as a campaign against rising gas prices and have morphed into a wider demonstration against French president Emmanuel Macron's government in recent weeks, spreading as far as France's Indian Ocean territory of Réunion. CNN reports.
Paris was counting the cost of clashes between police and demonstrators Sunday on the Champs-Elysees where barricades were set on fire and luxury shop windows smashed.
Some 3,000 police were deployed in the capital as demonstrators who have blocked French roads wearing their now signature high-visibility jackets caused another day of disruption.
Youths hurled objects and damaged property on the fringes of what otherwise appeared to have been a relatively peaceful protest.
Dozens of vehicles and a nursery school were set on fire by youths during standoffs with police in Paris.