On Sunday she expressed her sorrow for the victims of the co-ordinated suicide bombings and shootings in Paris with at least 129 people left dead and hundreds injured.

"I do have friends in Paris, I was worried for them," she said.

"They are all right, but the other people..."

"I'm sad and shocked."

Mrs Arragon, who moved with husband Daniel and children Anthony and Sarah to Australia nine years ago and came to Dubbo a short time later said she regarded the attacks as an act of war.

"I think it was a symbol to attack Paris, the 'City of Love'," she said.

She said it was extremists who had wreaked the havoc and that the world needed to be aware it could happen anywhere.

But in the hours after the attacks she was also encouraged.

"It's the extremists who have done this, most of the people are united," she said.

"We're all together in this sadness.

"I think all the world is together now, affected and touched by this.

"Even on Facebook, all these blue, red and white pictures.

"I'm touched by that."

At the weekend social media users from Dubbo were among those to share pictures in support of Paris.

Patricia Strahorn, who came to Australia from France 26 years ago, said it was an emotional time.

Her mother and father and her two daughters were in Paris just one month ago.

"Disbelief, I just felt numb," she said of watching the news reports from her home at Dubbo.

"Why Paris, it's a beautiful city.

"It's nice to know there is support outside France, that we're not alone."