THE 13th DISTRICT'S CULTURAL LEADERSHIP WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT THE BLANK WALLS ON SITES OF FORMER SLUMS, AND PARKS ON THOSE OF VANISHED INDUSTRY
As well, the ferocious, tragic and finally successful social struggles of the past explain the infinitely happier city now.
"We've forgotten 1848, but we still hear the Communards scream," was said even in the 1960's. Their courage and the society they sketched out inspired the militants of the Popular Front and the wartime Resistance.
"The future is not what is in front of us,
but springs up from behind."
-- Rahel Levin
Heroines and songs of La Commune, under street art in the 13th.
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