A GIANT PARK REPLACES GAS PRODUCTION

 

WHEN ELECTRICITY SUPPLANTS GAS, ITS' FACTORY'S TERRAIN BECOMES THE SPECTACULAR PARC DE CHOISY 

Adapted from a plan of 1900 / zoom

 « Usine à gaz [gas factory] »

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The site for German dentistry during the Occupation, then a place where Parisians who had collaborated were held, sometimes wrongly...  

As so often in Paris, the sinister is almost unimaginable.

Two memorials do recall horrific behavior:

 

Left, to the Jewish children who were first forbidden from playing in the park, then deported. Right, to the Tutsi of Rwanda, whose massacre the French government could have stopped and did not (interpretation of that ambiguous article).

For the park's Asian aspect and a memorial to Cambodian refugees, please click. 

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The park is splendid. 

 

Peaceful music that one hears from the street:  

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