Stéphane Charbonnier (known as ‘Charb’), cartoonist and editor-in-chief of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, was once asked whether he feared reprisals after he published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. In his answer, he paraphrased the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata: ‘I would rather die standing than live on my knees.’ A little over two years later, he was killed along with eleven others in the Islamist terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices.
