Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius earlier announced that he had ordered special security measures "in all the countries where this could pose a problem." France will close its embassies and schools in around 20 countries on Friday because of fears of a hostile reaction to a magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the foreign ministry said.
Demonstrations in the Islamic world often follow Friday prayers.
Fabius admitted that he was "concerned" by the potential for a backlash to satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's printing of a series of cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed against a background of violent protests in the Muslim world over an anti-Islam film.
The crudely-made US film is the main subject of Charlie Hebdo's cartoons but the sketches are open to wide interpretation.
The weekly carries a total of four cartoons.
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