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Fear that anywhere and anyone could be a target.

A sudden noise, and hundreds flee from a square. The air is thick with sirens. Controlled explosions of suspect packages are routine. Public gatherings are banned.

One week after terror attacks took the lives of 130 people in Paris, the French capital is in a somber mood -- and the French government is set on revenge.

"France is at war," declared President Francois Hollande, ordering dozens of airstrikes against ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the attack. The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle arrived in the eastern Mediterranean, tripling France's ability to bomb, and at home sweeping new security powers were introduced.

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The contrast with January is striking. Then -- after the gun attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo -- the French people rallied with massive demonstrations in defense of free speech.

Charlie Hebdo was targeted for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The response was a celebration of diversity, a coming together of faiths and ethnicities in this most multicultural, but fractious of European societies.

"We can draw anything, including a prophet, because in France, the France of Voltaire and irreverence, we have the right to make fun of religions," Justice Minister Christiane Taubira said.

The solidarity hashtag #jesuischarlie went viral. A dozen world leaders joined a march through Paris. And sales of Voltaire's Treatise on Tolerance leapt.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/20/europe/paris-attacks-fear-for-the-future/index.html

Keywords：

   1. sirens 誘人的

   2. somber 昏暗的

   3. airstrikes 空襲

   4. diversity 多樣性的

   5. multicultural 多種文化的

   6. prophet 先知

   7. irreverence 非禮