PARIS ARCHIVES DIGITIZE TRIBUTES TO VICTIMS OF NOVEMBER 2015 TERROR ATTACKS

In the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, archivists working for the mayor’s office collected some 7,709 letters, poems, photos, and drawings that were left on the sidewalks in front of sites of the shootings and around the Place de la République, which became the city’s largest shrine and collective mourning site. BFMTV reports that these documents, which were presented in an exhibition at the Archives de Paris last year, have now all been digitized and uploaded to a website where they can be searched by format, original location (Bataclan, Place de la République, etc.), or collection date.