This morning, I rummaged through my closet to find three shirts of exactly the right color...

[Surya Gayatri]

France gathers to honor its dead and to display its unity.

This solemn ceremony is beginning as I post this. President Hollande has asked French people all over France to show their solidarity with the Republic and with the victims by displaying the "Tricouleur" from their residences.

I don't own a proper French flag and am stuck in my apartment for medical reasons.

So, this morning I rummaged through my closet and managed to find three shirts of exactly the right color:

BLEU - BLANC - ROUGE

They are now waving in the breeze from my fourth floor window balustrade.

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This is Les Invalides, where the ceremony is taking
place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Invalides





http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34940427

France is to hold a national memorial service for the 130 people who died in the Paris attacks two weeks ago.

Friday's service in central Paris will bring together 1,000 people, including President Francois Hollande as well as survivors and victims' families.

A minute's silence will be held and the names of all the victims read out.

Attackers with assault rifles and suicide belts targeted a number of sites in the capital. Islamic State later said it was behind the assault.

ETA:

Direct streaming here:

http://www.france24.com/en/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34942420

Modern music and contemporary compositions are being performed in deference to the youth of the victims. The large majority were under 35 years of age.

[randome]

1. What, no armed protesters shooting guns in the air in front of mosques?

Oh, I forgot, France has class.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game. -Existenz[/center][/font][hr]

[Surya Gayatri]

2. ^^^This!^^^

Class, thy name is France...

Hi there, randome!

[Yorktown]

4. Full disclosure: there were some attacks on mosques.

plaster 'bombs' and a few pig heads hurled inside mosques compounds.

Nothing of consequence though.

[Yorktown]

3. +Rec, but it's not the "tricouleur", dammit!

It's the 'drapeau tricolore'

(tricolor flag)

[Surya Gayatri]

6. You're right about the spelling, of course, Yorktown. I was typing too fast,

so as to get the OP posted before the ceremony was already over (the whole thing only lasted about 30 minutes, including the reading of the names, several musical numbers, and Pres. Hollande's address.)

That said, you might be interested to know that, here on the ground (Paris intra-muros), NOBODY uses the full designation. It's "Tricolore" here at ground zero!
Drapeau be damned!

[Demeter]

5. .

For the victims of terrorism, which includes everyone, except perhaps the terrorists.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Thanks for the solidarity, Demeter. Hearing the stories

of the many young people who have been radicalized is also heartbreaking.

Several mothers of French teenagers, who were converted to radical Islam and ran off to Syria or Yemen, have been interviewed on French TV. Heartwrenching tales.

Their kids led "double lives", dissimulating their newly adopted beliefs, until the day they disappeared.

[Demeter]

8. I worry about them...will they find out they have been deceived and try to escape?

Or have they found their calling? Either way,

for their mothers.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Several have already died in Syrian violence--

and it's a dicey deal trying to escape from the clutches of Da'esh, once you're there.