Paris in shock after terror attacks: City lines up to donate blood and pay tribute as major attractions closed

The day after the bloodbath, the city’s major attractions were shuttered from Disneyland in the east and the Eiffel Tower in the centre to the Chateau of Versailles in the west, and its picturesque squares and avenues were eerily quiet.

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Schools, markets, museums and other tourist sites across the greater Paris area were closed and sporting fixtures were cancelled on the orders of the city or national authorities.

The list comprised schools, museums, libraries, sports halls, swimming pools, tennis courts, food markets and district town halls.

Only civil registration offices, to record marriages, will be open, it said, adding that security would be beefed up at town halls.

Parisians are lining up for hours to give blood, piling flowers and notes and spilling tears outside a music hall where scores of people were killed by rampaging suicide bombers who shattered the peace of the French capital.