After a weekend of horror, Paris returned to the routines of the work week today with determination, defiance and worry.
Rush-hour subway trains were full, shops were open, and office workers lined up for sandwiches or ate lunch on cafe terraces.
But this is also now a city dotted with makeshift shrines: carpets of flowers and candles, photos of lost loved ones and handwritten notes near the spots where gunmen and suicide bombers killed 129 people enjoying a fall Friday evening in the city.
Parisians stopped by throughout the day to honour the dead, many vowing that their city would remain its incomparable self- the sensual, tolerant, life-loving metropolis of the world's imagination.
"I am afraid, but not enough to stay at home, not moving," said Stephanie Cohen, a bank employee from suburban Paris.
"We have just to pray and say we are going to live more and more and more."
Others worried that the attacks would change Paris forever.
"I was there (in New York) when 9/11 happened, and to tell you the truth it did change my life," said Gary Berrios, a student originally from New York.
"It changed everyone's life. We don't see the world the same way anymore."
At the Place de la Republique in the heart of the city, a monument to France stood surrounded by flowers, candles and notes.
Handwritten cards had been left in French and English, Polish and Vietnamese - a reminder that Paris is a city that the world has taken to its heart.
"Love will conquer," said more than one sign - a vow, or maybe a wish, from the City of Love.
Outside the Bataclan theater, where 89 people died when attackers gunned down young concertgoers, a banner vowed: "Freedom is an indestructible monument."
There and outside the bars and restaurants where dozens more died, residents paused to lay flowers, light candles or simply stand quietly.
Even as the bustle of everyday life reasserted itself, Paris was a city of thousands of silent prayers and, with emotions running close to the surface, hundreds of heated arguments.
The attacks have unleashed a torrent of debate about France's essential values and its self-image.
Near the Bataclan, Parisians of all ages and races argued today about the role of religion and the limits of tolerance.
