Candles burn bright long into the night after Paris march 

Long after the last of the marchers left, people came, silent as mourners, to relight the candles flickering on the pedestal of liberty on the Place de la République.

The light of freedom, fought for so diligently over centuries by the citizens of France, would not be threatened; freedom of speech would be protected.

Others reshaped the bundles of pencils and pens adopted by the citizens of France as their weapon of defiance against the tragic, senseless deaths in their midst a few days previously.