Pretty much. I've seen it attributed to the legacy of the WWII French Resistance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance ) or the Paris Commune ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune ) or the Flour War ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_War ). But there's a lot more, and it goes much further back - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr...

Perhaps France's ruling classes are especially inclined to ignore the concerns of the poor and working classes, and the latter often feel that forceful resistance is their only option?

France aggressively centralised its bureaucracy in the '89 Revolution. That may help disconnect Paris from its constituents more than in other systems.