Who said je suis la france

Looking back on the hashtag's effects a year on - and after a second, even larger, massacre in Paris - one key question is how it affected Charlie Hebdo magazine itself.

A small, cash-strapped group of radical cartoonists and writers who were almost self-consciously at the fringe of debate suddenly found themselves at the centre of a worldwide rallying cry. So what happens to them when millions around the world suddenly declare that they are Charlie? For them, everything changed. As another gesture of solidarity, thousands took up a subscription, making the paper one of the richest in the country.

But the influx of money and attention may have been too much to handle. The newfound expectations of Charlie Hebdo came, of course, at the lowest possible moment. Eleven of its small staff were dead - the survivors were traumatised, under police guard, and frightened. As winter ended, the paper's two main cartoonists, Luz and Riss, announced that they wouldn't draw the prophet Muhammad anymore.

Luz later left the paper. Pelloux is also a medical doctor. He was the first on the scene after the Charlie Hebdo attacks and he treated his friends, and in November he also treated the victims of the attack at the Bataclan.

We met at a cafe in Paris. He looked casual with his scarf and cigarettes, but there was a van full of heavily armed police guards outside - to protect him. So Charlie Hebdo might still carry on, but has to carry on differently and I don't know how long it will last. Gerard Biard, the current editor, says that, ironically, one effect of "Je Suis Charlie" and all the attention on the magazine is more criticism of its satire than ever before - the paper's cartoons now get attention around the world.

After a plane full of Russian holidaymakers crashed, an incident that was initially linked to so-called Islamic State in Egypt, Charlie Hebdo published a picture of a skull with a caption many Russians found in bad taste: "The dangers of low cost Russian flights. And they don't know the French history of cartooning, which is very specific. The disenchantment for some with Charlie Hebdo perhaps tells us something about the problem with all symbols, and especially with the simple, catchy phrases of social media - they are never quite nuanced enough to include everyone.

Though for the man who started Je Suis Charlie, Joaquim Roncin, the meaning of his slogan is still straightforward. We're talking about drawings here, and the other side, Kalashnikovs. For me, you don't need to think about it for more than two seconds.

Either life, or death. In other words, for him, you're either Charlie or you're not. All our stories are at bbc. Outside the Bataclan - attacked in November - the attack on Charlie Hebdo is still being remembered. What is Charlie? Joachim Roncin designed the iconic illustration. Image source, Getty Images. This picture taken on 27 January shows 'Je suis Charlie' graffiti on a wall in Paris. De Gaulle had no monarch, virtually no armed forces, no access to funds beyond what the British allowed him and no territory.

For his project to succeed he had to create and encourage the idea that a legitimate French state existed beyond Vichy. He could only do so by projecting his personality and by acting - even from the tiniest beginnings - the role of the world statesman. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 10 months ago. Active 5 years ago. Viewed 3k times. Perhaps there's something in French about that? Improve this question. Tea Drinker Bbaldi Bbaldi 63 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Tea Drinker Tea Drinker There's a huge difference imho, 'I am France' sounds really pretentious. Thank you very much guys. Bbaldi Well, seeing that De Gaulle managed to say "La France a perdu une bataille mais la France n'a pas perdu la guerre" France has lost a battle but she has not lost the war with a straight face in June , one can wonder if he was severely delusional, megalomaniac or imbued with an inordinate aptitude to identify his wishes with reality or all of the above.

But the truly amazing thing is that De Gaulle actually managed to turn exactly all these extraordinary pronouncements "I am France", "France has not lost the was" into truths. There was, I believe, a time when the king of a country would just be referred to as "[country name]", e. Is that still relatively current in French? If so, he'd be saying "I am the ruler of France" which sounds rather less pretentious than "I am literally France the country".