--- description: The group consisted of many French study-abroad students title: Watch People Sing the French National Anthem at a New York Vigil image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch People Sing the French National Anthem at a New York Vigil for the Paris Attacks  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2015 1:55 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2015 1:55 PM CUT A crowd of about 70 people, many of them French nationals and French students studying in the U.S., gathered at a vigil in New York City’s Union Square on Friday evening in the wake of [the attacks on Paris that day](http://time.com/4112884/paris-attacks-isis-isil-france-francois-hollande/ "undefined"). The gathering was mostly silent, [Gothamist reports](http://gothamist.com/2015/11/13/video%5Fla%5Fmarseillaise%5Fsung%5Fat%5Funion.php "undefined"), until the group began to sing the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise.” Attendees of the soccer game between France and Germany at Paris’ Stade de France, near where some of Friday’s explosions took place, also sang the song as they evacuated the venue. > [](https://twitter.com/moneyries/status/665351739856437249) > [](https://twitter.com/moneyries/status/665350316452397056) > [](https://twitter.com/a%5Fbazeley/status/665361950755397632) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4112913/paris-attacks-new-york-vigil-union-square-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4112913/paris-attacks-new-york-vigil-union-square-video/"},"headline":"Watch People Sing the French National Anthem at a New York Vigil for the Paris Attacks","datePublished":"2015-11-14T13:55:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:37:09.542Z","description":"The group consisted of many French study-abroad students","url":"https://time.com/4112913/paris-attacks-new-york-vigil-union-square-video/","keywords":["France","paris"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4112913/paris-attacks-new-york-vigil-union-square-video/","name":"Watch People Sing the French National Anthem at a New York Vigil for the Paris Attacks"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Raw: Shootings, Explosions in Paris","description":"TIME Raw: Shootings, Explosions in Paris","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GMPKRpU2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-13T22:20:20.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GMPKRpU2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4112913/paris-attacks-new-york-vigil-union-square-video/","duration":"PT56S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4112913/paris-attacks-new-york-vigil-union-square-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```