In all, up to 1.6 million people gathered at the rally in Paris - 3.7 million at events across the country-making them the biggest in French history. 20.44 A fantastic photograph from our man Heathcliff O'Malley, showing what it was all about in Paris today.
The opening song of The Lion King has some pretty distinctive lyrics, though few of us actually know what all of them mean. The Circle of Life, starts out in Zulu before switching over to English. Here are the immortal words of Elton John, Tim Rice, and the animals of the Savannah: Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba.
The circle of life is a symbolic representation of birth, survival and death. The idea of life as a circle or a wheel exists across multiple religions and philosophies. Some wheels or circles are considerably more complex than others. Life is represented as a circle because it is a constant loop. People are constantly born and are constantly dying. There is a spiritual element to the circle, however, in the idea that the end of one existence is not necessarily the end of life altogether.