Around 400 farmers will take turns until Thursday to block the A4 motorway towards Jossigny. Host Karine Le Marchand distributed 300 croissants as a symbol of support for their protest movement.

“It’s the gentlest social movement I know,” she tells the demonstrators. ‘I gave my word that if they came to Paris, I would come. It was important to me. I even said I would get on the tractor,’ she jokes.