A GAS-MAKING SITE BECOMES A PARK THAT IS BIGGER YET

WHEN ELECTRICITY REPLACES GAS, THE LAND WHERE THE PLANT HAD BEEN TURNS INTO THE SPECTACULAR PARC DE CHOISY 

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           Adapted from a map of 1900 / zoom

Usine à gaz ("gas factory") says this venerable map

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The site for German dentistry during the Occupation, then where Parisians accused of collaboration were detained after the Liberation. 

As usual in Paris, the sinister is almost impossible to imagine.

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Memorials to victims of (right-wing) French governments 

Left, to Jewish children who were forbidden from playing in the park and then were deported by the puppet government. Right, to the Tutsi of Rwanda, whose massacre it is thought that France could have stopped and did not. 

           -- For a memorial to Cambodian refugees  please click.

Peacefulness that spreads out: trombone music heard from the street  

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