Police officials nationwide report the number of attacks are falling, rekindling hope that violence will end on the street in days.
Overnight a total of 374 cars were burned across the country, a fall of 128 on the night before and well below the highpoint last Sunday when some 1,300 vehicles were destroyed.
Police apprehended 212 people, bring the total of those detained since the star of the riots to almost 2,700 people.
Among the more serious incidents, a policeman was hospitalised when a metal ball was thrown at his head in the northern Paris suburb of La Courneuve, and a nursery school in the southern town of Aix-en-Provence was damaged in an arson attack.
However French police chief Michel Gaudin said that in the vast majority of
places where violence broke out overnight, the damage caused was only one or
two cars burned.
The centre of Paris remained calm after the authorities banned public meetings there on Saturday, fearing an influx of youth gangs from the suburbs.
In the end there was no sign of trouble, and the capital's outskirts were also relatively quiet.
Havoc in Lyon
In the Southeastern city of Lyon, authorities have banned public gatherings in order to head off a repeat of clashes.
Eleven people were arrested as police used tear-gas to disperse a crowd of stone throwing youths.
A molotov cocktail was also thrown at the main mosque but it caused little damage.
Authorities in France’s third largest city issued an order banning public meetings that could provoke disorder in public places. The order applied to Lyon’s city centre.
Government considers extending emergency laws
The French Cabinet will decide today whether to pass laws to extend the state of emergency beyond the 12 initial days.
France's tough-talking Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who has become the number one hate figure among the rioters, said procedures were under way to expel foreigners convicted of taking part in the violence.
Some 120 of those arrested have foreign nationality, but officials said in practice only a handful of these are liable to be deported.
Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, who has kept a relatively low profile since the start of the trouble, was to address a rally in Paris city centre Monday evening.