The Yellow Vests Protests or Yellow Jackets Protests or Yellow Vests Revolution were a series of populist, grassroots weekly protests in France that began on 17 November 2018.

Jacline Mouraud is a French activist credited as being one of the founders of the yellow vest movement. She rose to national attention as a result of a viral Facebook video she posted in October 2018 about France's proposed eco-tax to which she was opposed. Mouraud quickly found herself on regional and national television debating French MPs. Mouraud slowly became a divisive figure in the movement, being criticized by other yellow vest activists including Priscilla Ludosky and Eric Drouet, and the French media who have accused her of sharing of "fake news".