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SIGNS ON PARK RAILINGS...

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.1. History: which facts? (1)
0. Ignored gaps reveal another past (1)
0.1. How these views began (1)
0.2. Thanks! (1)
0.3. Details (1)
0.4. Contents (1)
1. WHAT MAKES FRANCE DISTINCT (1)
1.1. Setting the scene (1)
1.2. Players: legendary or unsung (1)
1.2.1. Kings at heart of French civ. (1)
1.2.2. Court women's gift of refinement (1)
1.2.3. Church monarchy's partner (1)
1.2.4. Small farms' impact (1)
1.2.5. Rebels' demand for justice (1)
1.2.6. Exiles & expats (1)
1.2.7. French language: an explosive gift (1)
1.2.8. Immigrant energies (1)
2. AN UNSUSPECTED CITY (1)
2.1. The logic of the legendary core (1)
2.1.1. A spectral rampart (4)
2.1.2. Saint-Germain: rampart heir (10)
2.1.3. Lords step out from the shadows (6)
2.1.4. Back to the rampart On to the river (5)
2.1.5. Palaces: glory & demise (10)
2.2. Brands take over the historic center (1)
2.2.1. Palais-Royal now (7)
2.2.2. Left-bank oasis & recent past (6)
2.2.3. "Real" Paris's affordable shopping (8)
2.3. ROYAL ROUTE: RUE ST. DENIS (1)
2.3.1. Medieval spirits linger (9)
2.3.2. The street of royal power (9)
2.3.3. Erasing rebel neighborhoods (1)
2.3.4. Crime. Nobles. Garment district (6)
2.3.5. Louis's arc looms over the route (1)
2.3.6. Toward the horizon (6)
2.3.7. Immigrants energize tradition (3)
2.4. To do with kids (or without them) (1)
2.4.1. If you come with little boys (1)
2.4.2. Street art & true story (4)
2.4.3. A wood where children play (1)
2.4.4. Louvre through kids' sharp eyes (8)
2.4.5. New horizons (1)
2.6. Nobles vs. capitalists at the Louvre (1)
2.6.1. Primacy of hereditary rank (1)
2.6.2. Everything helps the overclass (1)
2.6.3. ALLEGORY & NOBLES (4)
2.6.4. History — anecdotes or economy? (1)
2.6.5. The gods' modernity (4)
2.7. WHAT OPERA TOURS WON'T SAY (1)
2.7.1. A palace for a new elite (4)
2.7.2. Backers sex & money (6)
2.7.3. Blackout? (5)
2.7.4. From nymphs to Nazis (3)
3. VITALITY ON OTHER SIDE TRACKS (1)
3.1. Europe's "Chinatown" (1)
3.1.1. A walk where cultures mix (4)
3.1.2. Towers ahead of their time (6)
3.1.3. Colors of streets & shops (3)
3.1.4. Back to the towers & beyond (6)
3.1.5. Some of the restaurants (5)
3.1.6. Asians emerge from shadows (4)
3.2. The east: New worlds appear (1)
3.2.1. Memories of insurrection (5)
3.2.2. Where the arts spring up (5)
3.3. A path through "real Paris" (1)
3.4. "Barbès don't panic" (1)
3.4.1. Back to the wine tax (1)
3.4.2. Darkness of a past forgotten now (1)
3.4.3. A métro station & a movie theater (1)
3.4.4. Toward La Goutte d'Or (1)
3.4.5. The media (1)
3.4.6. (Not very) threatening youth (1)
3.4.7. Take another look (1)
3.5. ENERGY OF LA GOUTTE D'OR (1)
3.5.1. A setting of "Gauls" (7)
3.5.2. Art known mainly to neighbors (7)
3.5.3. First steps in another land (8)
3.5.4. "Looks:" a sociable art (10)
3.5.5. Textiles & Tailors (8)
3.5.6. A couturier for Kenzo &... (5)
3.5.7. Gentrification with brakes (6)
3.5.8. "Emerging design hub of Paris" (5)
3.5.9. Africans' exuberant creativity (4)
3.5.9.x. Suddenly visible Blacks (8)
3.5.9.xx Tomorrow's destination? (8)
3.5.9.xxx A plce Gtrd. Stein wd hv liked... (4)
4. WHY IS THE CITY SO GRAND? (1)
4.1. Majesty on a human scale (1)
4.1.1. A parade route changes course (10)
4.1.2. The milestones' meanings (7)
4.1.3. Design inconceivable elsewhere (6)
4.1.4. The royal imprint blossoms (5)
4.1.5. The curtain falls (13)
4.2. A modern royal city (6)
4.3. Have the kings become subversive? (5)
5. CITY OF REVOLT & MASSACRE (1)
5.1. History: which facts? (3)
5.1.1. 1830: The people fooled (6)
5.1.2. Republican misunderstandings (5)
5.1.3. 1848: fooled again (6)
5.1.4. Workers' first conscious revolt (7)
5.1.5. City Museum & the insurrections (8)
5.2. Fear: promoter of urban grandeur (1)
5.2.1. Remaking the city (1)
5.2.2. Metamorphosis seen up close (12)
5.2.3. Gifts of the repression (5)
6. LA COMMUNE (1)
6.1. Egalitarianism breaks through (1)
6.2. "The Terrible Year" (1)
6.2.1. A war of choice brings disaster (10)
6.2.2. Explosion (8)
6.2.3. Civil war & carnage (11)
6.2.4. Ruins. Revenge. Evolution. (10)
6.2.5. Mystification (1)
6.2.5.a. Old school mystification (6)
6.2.5.b. Mystification now (7)
6.2.5.c. Two historians fight back (2)
6.3. Fraternity that worked (6)
6.4. An omen and a turning point (3)
7. A COMMUNARD BASTION (1)
7.1. The fight for the hilltop (1)
7.1.1. Frenzied combat (1)
7.1.2. Communard fighters (1)
7.1.3. The Communard spirit continues (1)
7.1.4. A panel mentions La Commune... (1)
7.2. An epicenter of misery (1)
7.2.1. Vanished industry (1)
7.2.2. Disease. Crime. Revolt (1)
7.3. Third-world rev. training ground (1)
7.4. An outskirt that used to be chilling (1)
8. A PAST FORGOTTEN & INDELIBLE (1)
8.1. In the footsteps of "demons" (1)
8.1.1. Church where last battle fought (1)
8.1.2 .Passage by which survivors fled (1)
8.1.3. City-run residences (1)
8.1.4. Sculptures. Bikes. Gyms. Gardens (1)
8.1.6. Election posters / real democracy (1)
8.2. Shops Communards wd hv valued (1)
8.3. LOST INDUSTRY'S FINE TRACES (1)
8.3.1. Gigantic art that the City sponsors (1)
8.3.2. Messages cheer gray winter days (1)
8.3.3. Arts you discover by chance (1)
8.4. Parks on sites industry left (1)
8.4.1. Parks take over a sugar refinery (1)
8.4.2. Giant park on a gas-making site (1)
8.4.3. City's May Day parade starts here (1)
8.4.3. Posters on park railings (1)
8.5. A district that leans left (1)
8.6. The city's newest festival (1)
8.7. More gifts from City Hall (1)
8.8. A place to pitch your tent? (1)
8.9. WHAT HAPPENED: THE WAR DID (1)
8.9.1. "Better Hitler than Blum" (1)
8.9.2. Conservatives & the Resistance (1)
9. EPILOGUE (1)
9.1. The future springs out from behind (1)
9.2. "Don't you have an agenda?" (1)
9.3. "Teachng Communsm to the police!" (1)
9.4. "Yr misled but not bought. Join us!" (1)
x. INDEX (1)
x.i. Importance of the economic base (1)
x.ii. Omissions by trusted authorities (1)
x.iii. Dramas show how things work (1)
x.iv. Notice anomalies & details (1)
x.ix. Visits based on observation (1)
x.v. Priorities that urban designs reveal (1)
x.vi. Classic art as social weapon (1)
x.vii. Outskirts: cauldrons of the arts (1)
xx. Recommendations (1)

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