Insiste, Resiste, Persiste - we marched with 1000s of others in protest of violence against women And we marched... November 27, 2018 but the woman’s march wasn’t the only protest in Paris. Conservatives were also protesting at the same time - against President Marcon’s gas taxes - and those protests turned out-of-control and violent: Fires were set, traffic lights pulled down, tear gas and water cannons used to break up the protests.