Survivors of the terrorist attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo are planning to print one million copies of its next edition.

An eight page issue is expected to be released next week - instead of its usual 16-page run of 60,000.

The publication's lawyer said the magazine's staff wanted to carry on.

Charlie Hebdo columnist Dr Patrick Pelloux, emergency doctor, was in tears when he spoke to a French TV channel about the plans.

"I came here to tell you that the paper's going to continue, because they haven't won," he said.

"And that Charb, Cabu, Wolinski, Bernard Maris, Honore, Elsa, Tignous, Moustafa, the bodyguard who was killed who was in charge of our security - they didn't die in vain."

Dr Pelloux was at a meeting near the Charlie Hebdo offices when the attack happened.

He was one of the first responders on the scene, and describing what he saw, he said: "It was horrible. Horrible.

"Many of them were already gone, because they were gunned down execution-style. We managed to save others."

Reports in France have said €250,000 will be taken from a press diversity fund managed by French editors to help produce the next issue.

Google is expected to give €200,000 and the Guardian Media Group has pledged £100,000 to the magazine.

This morning, Taoiseach Enda Kenny will sign a Book of Condolence for the victims of the Paris shootings at the French Embassy in Dublin.

US president Barack Obama last night paid his respects at the French Embassy in Washington.