They held roses, shared memories and read poetry.
Those gathered at the Bastille held roses or pinned them to their coats to express their hopes.
The scene in which Jack holds Rose by the waist as she stands at the prow, arms outstretched, heading into what will be the Titanic's last sunset, has become an iconic moment in American cinema.
His marriage is destroyed, with Sally threatening to end her pregnancy; the police are knocking on doors in his neighbourhood; Annie is still alive; Katie knows far too much; he now holds Rose captive.
"To be quite honest, I couldn't hold Roses in May behind the leader.
Women holding roses appeared in boxes, boxes on wheels, and the man from Luxembourg turned these boxes around and around.
On Monday evening, an estimated 150,000 people took to the streets of Oslo, holding roses, to commemorate the dead and demonstrate their support for democracy.
The wife of a hospital nurse killed by SARS holds roses as she prays for her husband, Lau Wing-kai, 38, during a burial ceremony in Hong Kong.
The stadium crowds were diverse: nuns, imams, ministers, women holding pictures of missing firefighters, mothers cradling babies, small children waving flags, construction workers in hard hats, teenagers in American flag do-rags, Sikhs in turbans, men holding roses.
