Almost two months on from the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo office and the Jewish supermarket in Paris, the "Je Suis Charlie" banners, stickers and graffiti are starting to fade from the streets and public squares, reports documentary presenter Shaista Aziz on the BBC.
The worst terrorists attacks on French soil for decades have left lasting scars and trauma for many people and brought to the surface difficult, simmering questions about what it means to be French and Muslim today.
France is home to Europe's largest Muslim population. There are an estimated five million Muslims in the country.
At the same time, a growing number of people, especially people under the age of 35, are being attracted by the politics of the far-right and parties such as the Front National who say immigration and immigrants are bad for France.
They oppose what they see as the Islamification of Europe.
I have spent the past four weeks in France meeting current and former Charlie Hebdo employees, the Front National's Marion Le Pen, France's youngest ever MP, and the controversial comedian Dieudonné for a BBC Three documentary.
The film explores the politics and complexities around race, identity and religion and what it means to be a French Muslim in secular France, through the experiences of young French Muslims.
I met young people who say they are rejected by the country of their birth, France, because of their Muslim identity; one woman told me: "It's like being rejected by your mother."
These feelings are especially acute in the suburbs of Paris.
Here, less than 12 miles from the centre of the capital, I met a group of young people who say the stigmatisation and discrimination against Muslims has left them angry.
As one put it: "They would rather we have blonde hair and blue eyes."