A crowd of students, lecturers-researchers and staff gathered at the Palais Universitaire on Monday, 16 November at 12 in mourning for the victims of the Paris terror attack. The University first vice-president Michel Deneken reminded that a young Unistra graduate was among the victims. The community shared a long moment of silence before the crowd spontaneously started to sing La Marseillaise. In a letter published the day before, the University president Alain Beretz invited the community to gather around the values of liberty, equality and fraternity with “strength and intelligence”.