In the wake of the shocking attack on Charlie Hebdo,Ed Vulliamy spent time with the magazine’s surviving cartoonists as they mourned their fallen colleagues and put together their survivors’ issueOn the heavy-hearted Friday night after the two sieges that followed the Charlie Hebdo massacre – and the week’s death toll reached 17 – three long tables were set, like three sides of a square, or at a brasserie in the 14ème arrondissement,since the 19th century a quartier for artists and bohemians. This specific bistro is my regular and favourite: unpretentious, unreconstructed and unimpressed by the uniform, or airport-like decor favoured by others on the Left Bank.
The company of 16 people – 14 men,two women – was animated, bordering on raucous; wine flowed, or though not too much; food is traditional in this place,and it kept coming. One could nearly have felt that the vivacity of conversation, animated gestures and full-blooded life-force around the tables were out of place at the close of a solemn week that had seen the murder of staff and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo, and others. apart from that…Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com