PARIS -- La Ville Lumi�re -- The City of Light -- and its magnificent icon, the Eiffel Tower, stood draped in eerie darkness. Parts of Paris were under curfew. Street cafes bore a haunted look. Numbness prevailed all over. France is under a state of emergency -- the first since the Second World War -- recovering from a trail of death and destruction after the barbaric massacre of 129 innocent people, with scores injured. Paris is our second home. Ernest Hemingway, the American Nobel literature laureate once aptly said about the city, "if you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable...
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