3.8.1. MÉTRO RENOVATION FOR TOURISM?

OVERCROWDED AND DELAPIDATED, THE CHÂTEAU ROUGE MÉTRO STATION HAD TO BE RENOVATED 

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Its tracks lead only to the poor, North African and African area far from the center and have no connecting lines. The renovated station should be as spartan as the city's 302 others. 

But luxurious hand-painted tiles compose the decor now.

They come from the Sèvres National Manufactory, which Louis XV founded in 1740...

     The establishment in 1817 / zoom

 ...that Cameroon's Barthélémy Toguo, a former resident of La Goute d'Or, painted by hand.

 Photo and article (in French) / zoom

 The National Library exhibited his work in 2024.

Roots represent the diversity of residents' origins.

The décor combines royal culture and immigration. 

To welcome outsiders?  

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3.8.2.

The Barbès hub