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    Elegy for Charlie Hebdo: A silent dispatch from Paris

    Video: In just more than a minute, Maclean’s contributor Nick Kozak captures a day like no other in Paris

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    <p>People hold up posters, which include Charlie Hebdo Editor Stephane Charbonnier (front), a cartoonist known as Charb, and Jean Cabut (back L), a cartoonist known as Cabu, during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting, by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, in the Manhattan borough of New York January 7, 2015. Hooded gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the weekly satirical magazine known for lampooning Islam and other religions, shooting dead at least 12 people, including two police officers, in the worst militant attack on French soil in decades. Carlo Allegri/Reuters</p>

    People hold up posters, which include Charlie Hebdo Editor Stephane Charbonnier (front), a cartoonist known as Charb, and Jean Cabut (back L), a cartoonist known as Cabu, during a vigil to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting, by gunmen at the offices of weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, in the Manhattan borough of New York January 7, 2015. Hooded gunmen stormed the Paris offices of the weekly satirical magazine known for lampooning Islam and other religions, shooting dead at least 12 people, including two police officers, in the worst militant attack on French soil in decades. Carlo Allegri/Reuters

    When the worst seemed over — 20 dead at last count, including three gunmen — the president of France addressed the nation. “The threats facing France are not finished,” he warned. “We are a free people who cave to no pressure.”

    Security forces blanketed the city and region Friday as two separate hostage incidents unfolded. And while police were seemingly everywhere, so were Parisians.

    Maclean’s contributor Nick Kozak captured these images on a day of siege and resilience:

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