Clashes with law enforcement and acts of vandalism were found in Paris , Lyon, Nantes and Rennes in the night after the second round of the parliamentary elections, the "Journal du Dimanche" reported, quoted by BTA.
Arsons were set in the French capital, and police officers were targeted with pyrotechnics on the Place de la République, reported in "Figaro". The police clashed with a group of masked individuals with hoods "who were desperately trying to provoke the law enforcement", the newspaper added.
Earlier in this area there was a rally of supporters of the left-wing "New Popular Front", which won the parliamentary elections in France.
In Nantes, demonstrators threw bottles and bombs at the police, who responded with tear gas. A security officer suffered burns after being attacked with an incendiary bottle.
The Prefecture of Rennes announced 31 arrests for acts of vandalism.
Meanwhile, left-wing politicians and centrists in Europe expressed satisfaction with the election victory in France of the "New Popular Front" - a coalition of left and far-left parties.
"In Paris - enthusiasm, in Moscow - disappointment, in Kiev - relief. Enough for us to be happy in Warsaw," Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said yesterday in "X".
"The worst was avoided," said Nils Schmidt, foreign policy spokesman for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats in Germany, where the far right has also grown in popularity due to the crisis with the high cost of living, Reuters reported.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's party congratulated the left-wing alliance on a victory that "stops the far right from reaching government.
Nikos Androulakis, head of the Greek socialist party PASOK, said that the French people had "built a wall against the extreme right, racism and intolerance and had preserved the eternal principles of the French Republic: "Liberty, equality and fraternity".
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The election left the French parliament divided between three major groups - left, centrist and far-right - with different platforms and no tradition of working together. None of the three will have a majority in the National Assembly.
The left wants to cap the prices of essential goods such as fuel and food, raise the minimum wage and public sector wages at a time when France's budget deficit is already 5.5 percent of GDP, more than allowed by EU rules.
In this sense, some right-wing politicians made gloomy predictions after the victory of the left.
"Goodbye to European deficit limits! (The government) will collapse in no time. Poor France! She can take solace in (Kylian) Mbappe," said Claudio Borghi, a senator from Italy's right-wing League party.
Andre Ventura, leader of Portugal's far-right SEGA party, called the result "a disaster for the economy, a tragedy for immigration and bad for the fight against corruption.
The leader of the Spanish far-right party "Vox" used the French election to attack his opponents in the right-wing People's Party. He posted on social networks a screenshot of a media headline "People's Party welcomes the victory of the extreme left in France" and commented succinctly: "They have no problem".