Police said they arrested 330 people and youths burned 1,173 vehicles.
Earlier, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said he would invoke a 60-year-old law that would give regional authorities the power to impose curfews "where necessary".
The measure is an effective state of emergency for areas around cities and towns, and would ban night time movements of people and vehicles, and allow police to set up roadblocks.
However the prime minister ruled out army intervention to quell the violence, which has fanned across France.
The violence has claimed its first death, that of Jacques Le Chenadec, 61, who died in hospital after as a result of his injuries sustained on Friday night from a street attack north of Paris.
Mr Villepin said 1,500 police reinforcements will be deployed to restore public order in the troubled area.
The town mayor in the north eastern Parisian suburb of Raincy, one of the riot epicentres, has backed the curfews saying it is necessary to avoid a tragedy.
Mr de Villepin said he believes organised criminal networks and gangs of juvenile delinquents are responsible for the violence, not Islamic radicals.
"There are, of course, concerns about Islamism, about a radical trend. I do
not believe that to be the essential element today, even if that side of things should not be overlooked," he said.
Youths predominantly from France's large Arab-Muslim minority have rampaged through out-of-town neighbourhoods for the past 11 nights, torching cars, businesses and public buildings and attacking police officers.
Overnight, rioters burned down a gymnasium in the Paris region, and a creche in the northern town of Lille was torched.
A mob in the eastern city of Strasbourg pelted German media workers, and 15 people were hospitalised in Auxerre, southeast of Paris, with breathing problems after fleeing a blaze in a cellar.
A fatwa against the riots has been issued by Muslim leaders in the African and Arab community.
The unrest was sparked on October 27 by the accidental deaths by electrocution of two teenagers in an electrical substation in Clichy Sous Bois, a northern Parisian suburb.
Since then, violence has fanned across the country in a ritual of copycat attacks by disaffected teenagers.
Mr de Villepin also announced a series of financial measures to support local associations in run-down city suburbs -- which he admitted the government had scaled back since taking power in 2002.
He also announced more merit scholarships in poor areas as well as plans for apprenticeship schemes from the age of 14 instead of the current 16, saying he hopes it will target youths rioting on the streets who have dropped out of the mainstream school system.
Few regions have been spared in violence, not witnessed in France since the 1968 student uprisings.
There are also concerns about a fall in consumer confidence and foreign investment, with the image of one of the worlds premier tourist destinations tarnished.