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Bataclan Concert Hall on November 13, 2015
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Daniel Psenny / LE MONDE / AFP
There is a framed photo on the mantelpiece in François Hollande's office, it shows the funeral march after the attack on the satirical magazine "Charlie Hebdo" in January 2015. His Labrador dog lies next to Hollande's desk and he can see the green treetops from the floor-to-ceiling windows Look at the Tuileries Gardens and the many cyclists who have recently been riding down the Rue de Rivoli.
Paris looks peaceful from here, but that is deceptive.
It began in late September when a terrorist tried to kill two people with an ax in front of the former Charlie Hebdo editorial office.
21 days later, an 18-year-old boy beheaded the teacher Samuel Paty in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine - because he had dared to show his students caricatures of Mohammed in class.
And again the republic celebrated its sadly practiced rituals: funeral marches, minutes of silence, a memorial service for the dead teacher in the courtyard of the Sorbonne.
"We will continue, teacher," promised Emmanuel Macron in front of the coffin.
"We will defend the freedom you have taught so well."
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