In the confusion and horror of Paris in shock, the details stay with you. In the bleary early Saturday morning, behind the police barriers, a lone tour bus was still parked on Boulevard Voltaire in front of the Bataclan concert hall, where the Eagles of Death Metal gig had been bloodily interrupted by Daesh terrorists the night before. It was impossible not to notice how the band’s black-painted bus strangely matched the half-dozen hearses maneuvering around it to carry away bodies still lying in the concert hall by the dozen; a surreal ballet of mourning, watched mainly by cops and young soldiers, as Parisians had been advised to stay home.

Another image: a shaky telephone video of soccer fans spontaneously singing “La Marseillaise” while being evacuated from the Stade de France in north Paris, after three suicide bombers detonated themselves outside the France-Germany game in the course of the coordinated attacks. French soccer, and the Stade de France, have a complicated history with “La Marseillaise”: Fourteen years ago, then-prime minister Lionel Jospin walked out of a France-Algeria game after the “Marseillaise” was booed by French-born supporters of the Algerian team. More than once, the French national team was blamed because our players would not even pretend to mouth the national anthem being played before a game. But this time it was the public themselves, in a moment of uncertainty and fear, who reacted with the unerring Résistance instinct.