Since I doubt seriously there are this many Jews in Paris I'm sure hoping there were lots and lots of just plain ole French citizens who have finally had enough standing with the Jews of Paris. I think a bottle of French Bordeaux sounds real good too!!
There were French resisters and there were many, many French collaborators -- important and powerful people, not just the odd traitor. Many of these people sailed right through the war and emerged after the war, and on into the 60s, as power players among the French elite. I believe that there is a historical consensus that the French, after their military collapse, settled into a rather easy accommodation with the Nazis. Overall, they were quite efficient in rounding up Jews and turning them over for deportation. The French have never fully come to terms with this history, but it is undeniable.
btw, I am not a French basher (although sometimes I enjoy a bit of French baiting). I've made France, her history, language, and culture something of a hobby, by which I do not mean to claim any expert level of knowledge. I admire many things about France and French culture. But there are a lot of ugly chapters in the book of French history. The French are damn sure not in the business of making nice to America, and I have no reluctance to call them out for their own failings.
I just thought your reaction to today's demonstration was a bit too warm and cozy. Like the Germans, they have some guilt to drive away. Demonstrations make for a cheap cleansing of the soul...not to say that they aren't sincere but a demonstration is just a demonstration. It remains worth remembering who was where when the rubber met the road.
(P.S. I am not Jewish and sometimes find fault with sentiments and movements which seem to me to be animated by specifically Jewish sentiments. As to the Holocaust, we -- all good men and women -- we are all Jews.)