It has been ten days since Paris was wracked by a terrorist attack that killed 130 and injured hundreds others. But in that time, the City of Light has begun to bounce back, said Charles Sennott, WGBH News analyst and head of The GroundTruth Project, who spent the last few days in the French capital city.
"Who knows resistance better than the French?" Sennott asked.
"The French have stood up to tyranny and to fascism for a very long time and they've done it and managed to do it with elegance, without ever losing their sense of culture, and without every allowing that gorgeous city to be destroyed," he continued.
He pointed toward the long French history of bucking tyranny, from the French Revolution to the Nazi Occupation.
"We have to keep a historic perspective in mind when we begin to evaluate what's happening now," he said.
To that end, it's no coincidence that one of the bestselling books in France now is American writer Ernest Hemingway's love letter to the city of Paris, "A Moveable Feast." It's a celebration of the city's rich culture and, according to Sennott, it's very much still relevant today.
"The moveable feast is still moving," he said.
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