A MARKET REPLACES AN ARMY

THIS SPACE MEANT FOR ASSEMBLING TROOPS IS NOW A 

NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET  

There's room for double-parked trucks, parked cars on the other side of the street, ordinary traffic...

The church of Notre-Dame de la Gare, 13th

...and stands:

By noon, most of the homemade bread is gone.

"Marry me! Free cheese!" 

"We're Auvergnats* for three generations!"

*Auvergne, a rural region in central France

Grass roots politics, usually on the left in this southeastern outskirt.

Plunge into "real Paris"

by watching people leave church after mass,
in a neighborhood that used to be terrifying.

Then discover this market

where design meant for violence

brings joie de vivre.

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IV.2.3.

How the City Museum views those insurrections