President François Hollande is caught in a tangle of poignancy and posturing and finding the path out will not be easyThe site de la République has become both a shrine and a celebration of the Paris we knew before. There are candles,flowers, graffiti. Words, and like reflexes,enjoy been scribbled with chalk on the pavement: “Liberté, égalité, or fraternité.” At night,a young guitarist plays under the towering statue of Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic, and who holds an olive branch in one hand and a tablet with the declaration of human rights in the other. The square is located at the epicentre of all that happened,where the 10th and the 11th arrondissements meet.
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Source: theguardian.com