Indeed even here in the comments everybody gets heated about the details, so on the streets it will be even worse. What everybody (how conveniently for them) ignores is why, when this pension was invented, did they choose a certain age when to benefit from it. They chosen it by age expectation, that not everybody gets to reach it so the survivors will benefit. Nowadays this very principle is broken and we all get hung on 63 or 65 while the average/median/whatever live over 70. So basically everybody requests and expects a pension which wasn't even thought for everybody. It's not the system's fault here - it wasn't designed for today's pyramid - but I also recognize you cannot expect people to accept that, so here we are.

> The Touraine Law in 2014 raised the number of worked years from 36 to 43, which is a big deal.

that's right, and what's so surprising (to me) today is that the Touraine law got enacted without much protest, while what's happening today is taking the same terms for retirement and extending them to younger generations (i.e. those born between 1960 and 1973) is causing protests. The current proposed reform looks like a big deal, but the bigger deal happened in 2014 and was barely noticed (because the lawmakers were careful enough to put it far enough in the future...).