Paris: "We're back!". With those words -- and a cartoon depicting the pope, a jihadist and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen as a pack of enraged animals -- Charlie Hebdo marked its return today.

The team has lain low since rushing out a "survivors' issue" a week after the January 7 jihadist attack on its Paris office that killed 12 people, including some of France's best-loved cartoonists.