A Week Inside Charlie Hebdo: How the 'Survival Issue' Was Made

By: Ed Vulliamy | The Guardian

On the heavy-hearted Friday night after the two sieges that followed the Charlie Hebdo massacre – and the week’s death toll reached 17 – three long tables were set, like three sides of a square, at a brasserie in the 14ème arrondissement, since the 19th century a quartier for artists and bohemians. This particular bistro is my regular and favourite: unpretentious, unreconstructed and unimpressed by the uniform, airport-like decor favoured by others on the Left Bank.