There are a few tentative observations to be gleaned in the aftermath of the Paris attacks:

* Claire Berlinski has a helpful dispatch in which she touches on the resistance graffiti that has now sprung up around the city (“Fluctuat nec Mergitur,” or “Tossed by the waves, but not sunk,” which is the city’s motto). But the real question is whether or not the people of France are outraged enough to make systemic changes. This is not Europe’s first mass terror attack: We’ve now had big, coordinated Islamist attacks in London, Madrid, Moscow (repeatedly), and Paris. If I were running domestic intelligence for Germany and Italy, I’d consider Berlin and Rome as “on notice” at this point. This wasn’t even the first major attack in Paris this year.