8.3.2. A GIANT PARK OCCUPIES A GAS-MAKING SITE

 

WHEN ELECTRICITY SUPPLANTS GAS, THIS SITE  BECOMES THE SPECTACULAR PARC DE CHOISY 

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Adapted from a map of 1900 / zoom

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

Panels recall horrific French policies...

 

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.

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As usual in Paris, the sinister is almost unimaginable.  

 

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A musician's peaceful melodies drift into the street.  

The park allows exceptional events:
To be continued.

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Next,

8.3.3.

Posters on park railings