Parisians can now breath easy ... the threat has passed. From the Kansas City Star:

France's government put the country on the lowest level of terrorism alert Friday.

Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin lowered the alert level to "yellow" - the lowest in a four-color risk scale.

The previous level was "orange," which calls for heightened patrols in public places and a ban on flights over sensitive sites such as nuclear plants to prevent a "plausible terrorist threat."