Charlie Hebdo – the last vestige of a bawdy and somewhat savage nineteenth-century French tradition of outrageous caricature of religious and political figures – may well be an ideal icon of free expression. Europeans rose to defend a vital principle; free speech, however vicious, retains a place in any democracy.
《查理周刊》是19世纪法国讽刺宗教政治人物的低俗野蛮传统所遗留的最后一点痕迹——完全可以被看成言论自由的理想符号。欧洲人群起捍卫一项重要的原则；无论言论自由是多么可恶，但仍在任何民主国家占有一席之地。