Front cover of Charlie Hebdo, no. 1118, Paris: 20 November, 2013. This cover of the French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo shows an illustration by the artist Riss captioned ‘La presse va bien… elle excites les cons!’, which translates to ‘The press is fine… it excites the fools!’. PEN members paid tribute outisde Charlie Hebdo’s offices after they were attacked in January 2015, including Emmanuel Pierrat, president of the French Centre (2019-21), who is the lawyer of two of the victims.