Roger Cuikerman, head of the French umbrella groups of Jewish organisations, CRIF, said there was a growing anxiety amongst French jews.
In the past Paris has threatened to pull the economic plug on any territory that chooses independence, explaining why many Tahitians prefer some form of loose autonomy while remaining under the French umbrella.
That is how he explains a voracious interest in, for example, the restoration of English and French umbrellas from the 1930s and '40s (his collection numbers 16).
A French Jewish umbrella organization responded furiously to Mr. Papon's interview, calling his remarks "scandalous" and "gravely deploring" the decision by the main TF1 television station to broadcast the interview on Tuesday night.
Video surveillance footage showed the gunman bursting into the school and shooting one child at close range in the head, before fleeing on a motorbike, said Nicolas Yardeni, regional head of the French Jewish umbrella association, CRIF.
In addition, there are about 12,000 Roma from Bulgaria and Romania, many of whom live in unauthorised camps in urban areas across the country, according the French Roma rights umbrella group FNASAT.
Harmonium also contained "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," in which waves are described in terms of such unlikely equivalents as umbrellas, French phrases, and varieties of chocolate, and "The Comedian as the Letter C," in which he examines the relation of the poet, or man of imagination, to society.
He also wrote English lyrics for Michel Legrand's music from Jacques Demy's romantic 1964 French film "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," most notably "I Will Wait for You" ("Till you're here beside me, till I'm touching you") and for what became "I Will Follow Him," a solid hit about teenage adoration sung by Little Peggy March (age 15) in 1963.
The Paris Opera Ballet's flying visit last weekend, its first appearance in the capital for 20 years, was part of France Moves, the Umbrella's French component.
Since 1996 he has headed the Union of French Democracy, a conservative umbrella group that fractured earlier this year after some of its leaders accepted support from the extreme-right National Front in order to hold power in French regional parliaments.
Unveiling the renovated listed building, Liliane Lefait, administrator of the French Buddhist Union – an umbrella group for several Buddhist organisations set up following the waves of immigration from Vietnam and south Asia in the 1960s – said: "This place is open for everyone and anyone to visit.
