A man hides his face as he
leaves the morgue in Paris, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015. French President Francois
Hollande vowed to attack the Islamic State group without mercy as the jihadist
group admitted responsibility Saturday for orchestrating the deadliest attacks
inflicted on France since World War II. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza
BY JOHN LEICESTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PARIS (AP) --
The indiscriminate taking of so many lives squeezed life out of Paris itself.
Not all life but enough to create a sense of emptiness. Although far from
extinguished, the City of Light is now unmistakably dimmed.
On somber
streets, scattered with the dead leaves of autumn, Parisians went through the
motions of trying to pick up where they left off before suicide attackers
slaughtered 129 people, the latest official count. So much felt wrong and out
of kilter.
The Eiffel
Tower closed and, in doing so, became a 324-meter (1,063-foot) tall symbol of
how much is changed. Its glittering lights, so powerful they usually radiate
beams far and wide across the city, were also switched off Saturday night in
mourning.
Disneyland
Paris shut its doors. Instead of an Andy Warhol exhibition, the only thing
out-of-town visitors Yvette and Guilhem Nougaret saw at the Museum of Modern
Art was a sign announcing its closure "because of the circumstances."
