If you were watching the night of terror in Paris on Friday the 13th, you could not have failed to miss the image of a woman screaming for help as she clings to a ledge. Desperate, young and pregnant. A fall would have endangered her life and the life of her unborn child.


The good news is that the woman and her baby are alive and well. Thanks to the help of a stranger.


The iconic image of the woman screaming, "Help, help, I'm pregnant, catch me if I fall," stood out in the blurry video footage, showing her clinging to the a 1st floor window of the Bataclan venue.


Inside, gunmen were cold-bloodedly shooting dead 89 of her fellow concert goers.


The woman sent a message of thanks to her rescuer as he described how they had both cheated death.


The Telegraph reports that the woman was just moments from losing her grip when Sebastien, who declined to disclose his surname, heard her cries.

There were two windows in front of me, he said. She was dangling from one of them, begging people below for help if she jumped. It was chaos down there as well. I climbed out through the other window and held on to an air vent 15 metres from the ground. I held on for five minutes and then the pregnant woman, who couldnt cling to the window-sill any longer, asked me to help her get back inside.


Amid a torrent of gunfire, Sbastien went back inside and pulled the woman back through the window before the pair were immediately separated.


Pic: A video grab of the woman clinging on for life that was shared on social media.