Almost 90,000 anti-terror police are hunting for the two brothers suspected of killing 12 people in the attack on the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Elite police and paramilitary forces have focused their search on the northern Aisne region, some 43 miles from Paris.
Two men fitting the descriptions of brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stole fuel and food from a petrol station near Villers-Cotterets on Thursday.
Heavily-armed officers launched a search in the village of Crepy-en-Valois, around 10 miles from the petrol station.
Hundreds of police dressed in bullet-proof vests and helmets are searching countryside spanning from Soissons, through Abbaye de Longpoint, right up to Villers-Cotteret.
On Thursday night, helicopters buzzed overhead in the region as the hunt continued.
Witness Benoit Verdun told Sky News he believes the suspects are in a large forest near Longpont, which he said is "bigger than Paris" - measuring some 13,000 hectares, or 50 square miles.
It comes as a US official confirmed the brothers were both flagged as terrorists in a US database, and were also on the no-fly list, meaning they were barred from travelling to the United States.
According to French intelligence, Said Kouachi also travelled to Yemen in 2011 to receive training in small arms combat and marksmanship.
Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "There will be inquiries going on all over France.
"Police will be talking to associates of these two to build up a picture of their recent movements."
US President Barack Obama wrote the words "Vive la France!" in a book of condolence during a visit to the French embassy in Washington on Thursday.
"As allies across the centuries, we stand united with our French brothers to ensure that justice is done and our way of life is defended," he wrote.
"We go forward together knowing that terror is no match for freedom and ideals we stand for - ideals that light the world. Vive la France!"
A minute's silence was also held across France on Thursday in honour of those who died in the terror attack.
After the silence, bells tolled at Paris' Notre Dame cathedral and in churches across the country.
The lights of the Eiffel Tower were turned off for five minutes as a mark of respect for the victims.
Thousands of people also gathered for a second night in the Place de la Republique to hold vigils.
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