Paris this spring was still beautiful, but tense. Post-Charlie Hebdo, 8,000 smart, almost chic, soldiers supplement the edgy French police. The Marais district— ah, the Marais in spring!—is still flavour of the month. Just as in pre-World War II it’s still a bit Jewish, but definitely no longer proletarian. Rollicking crowds of tourists and citoyens still fill the Marais, the banks of the Seine, and the Luxembourg Gardens.