Macron's favourite Parisian restaurant was burned down by protesters.

Demonstrators protesting Emmanuel Macron's pension reform have set fire to the French president's favorite Paris restaurant, La Rotonde. Some 300 rioters clashed with police outside the posh eatery on the iconic Boulevard du Montparnasse in Paris on Thursday, leading to the branded red awnings on the front of La Rotonde catching fire. Firefighters, who were swift to arrive on the scene, did not allow the flames to spread further and extinguished the blaze. La Rotonde was opened in 1903 and became popular among the creative intellectuals in Paris between the two world wars. Since January, France has been gripped by large-scale and often violent protests over the government's decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. Last month, Macron used executive privilege to pass the pension reform bill without a parliamentary vote.