La France est dans une douleur intense aujourd'hui. Nous pleurons nos innocents.

[Surya Gayatri]

Le nombre de morts ne cesse malheureusement d'augmenter.



France is in great pain today. We are mourning our innocent ones. The death toll keeps rising unfortunately.

[BlueMTexpat]

1. Toutes mes

condoléances les plus profondes!

[Surya Gayatri]

3. J'ai des larmes aux yeux constamment. Des enfants fauchés dans la rue par un fanatique.

C'est trop. Faut que ça cesse...

Merci, BMTexpat. Les mots semblent si inconséquents en ce moment.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

25. Viva la France!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Surya Gayatri]

26. Vive la République !!!

[betsuni]

2. K&R

[raven mad]

4. Remember how the French said "We are ALL New York"?

Well, let's repay that.

douleur et aide

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Merci...il faut surtout penser aux familles déchirées et devastées.

Thanks...we have to have a thought above all for the torn and devastated families.

[LittleGirl]

5. I don't want to watch the news anymore

my soul can't take the heartache. it's just never ending heartache for my fellow humans.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Thankfully, the French are a resilient and resourceful lot--many decades of dealing with this crap.

They know terrorism inside out and have been its victims for the last 40 years.

We will rise again.

[AntiBank]

10. imagine WW1 and WW2 in a time of 24-7 news, YouTube, Twitter, fb, etc

[Surya Gayatri]

12. The prospect is mind boggling. Thanks the Gods for media blackouts.

A constant, unceasing media barrage does nothing but frighten the bejesus out of people, and give the bad guys exactly what they want.

[LittleGirl]

23. Vietnam on the news every night

was enough for me back then.

[auntpurl]

8. France is tough.

They will get through this, with the support of the international community. They will keep on keeping on - that's what the French know how to do.

I'm so sorry this has happened in your country. Je suis desolée.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Thank you so much for those wise words, auntpurl.

Americans often don't understand the historical resilience and durability of the French. They've been here for over a thousnd years and aren't going anywhere soon.

They are NOT "surrender monkeys" as some RWers like to claim...they simply choose their battles. This battle has only begun.

Merci pour tes pensées sincéres.

[auntpurl]

11. The best thing about the French is that they will not be cowed.

This will not stop people in Nice or anywhere in France from gathering in public, mourning, celebrating, socialising, having fun, or whatever they want to do. They do not cower before terrorists. I went to the Marseille gathering after Paris last year. Thousands of people on the Vieux Port, lighting candles, talking, crying, laughing, drinking wine, solidarity with Paris on everyone's lips. That is the French. The idea that they should huddle in their houses in fear never occurred to them.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. ^^^AMEN to this!^^^

Thousands of people on the Vieux Port, lighting candles, talking, crying, laughing, drinking wine, solidarity with Paris on everyone's lips. That is the French. The idea that they should huddle in their houses in fear never occurred to them.

La résistance française is legendary.

[auntpurl]

14. It's one of the (only?) things the French have in common with the English (especially Londoners)

and something I really love, the attitude of "I've been bombed by a better class of bastards than you lot! Bring it on. Fuck you if you think you're going to change me or scare me or make me less able to live my life the way I want to."

The thing I worry about is increased xenophobia, already a problem in France. In Marseille there wasn't much because it's more a North African city than a French city, but Nice is a bit different and this is two attacks in two years. Will it worsen France's attitudes to migrants/immigrants? I hope not.

[Surya Gayatri]

15. This is my biggest worry, too. Marine Le Pen is sure to get a big bump in the polls from this...

and she will cynically milk it for all its worth.

The thing I worry about is increased xenophobia, already a problem in France.

But, saner voices always seem to prevail. The French haven't survived for a thousand years by cowering in fear. Their République was hard fought for and they will not cede it to fascism.

[auntpurl]

17. Awful woman Le Pen. Put her on a boat with Farage and Trump and send them out to the deep blue sea.

The same kind of distasteful skin-crawling bigots. Vile.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. True...when I hear her strident voice and rhetoric, I get a "frisson" of disgust.

[malaise]

16. I weep for the innocent in France and everywhere else n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

19. Merci...l'âme éternelle de la France a subi un coup dur.

[madamvlb]

20. We chose not to go to.

Thank God. We were going to go to see the fireworks after leaving my in laws in La Seyne-Sur-Mur but decided to go to Germany.

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Vous l'avez échappé belle. You had a close call.

[yardwork]

22. I am so sorry.

[Surya Gayatri]

24. Thanks. France needs lots of positive thoughts today.

[BooScout]

27. Il n’ y a pas de mots.

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[Surya Gayatri]

28. Non, ça dépasse les paroles. Merci, Boo...

[yuiyoshida]

29. konotabiha wa gosyusyou samadesu.

Kore wa, Furansu de osoroshii dekigotodeshita.

[Surya Gayatri]

31. Dōmo arigatōgozaimashita...

[yuiyoshida]

32. dou itashimashite

honto desu.

[Iliyah]

30. Prayers

[sheshe2]

33. Peuvent ils dorment avec les angles.