"THE SHAME OF PARIS,"
CITÉ JEANNE D'ARC
(BUILT IN 1884)
"The modern Court of Miracles...
those who live there have fallen
to the last rung of misery"
-- Belinda Carter, Paris treizième
"The posthumous account of a man who spent his youth among the most indigent of the capital — notably of Cité Jeanne d'Arc — and tells what he has seen..." |
Disease
"...in its dark, funereal corridors, among the stairs, corners and sordid recesses and in the midst of its shadow, the infection lurks and prowls, always in search of prey, the devouring specter: tuberculosis.
-- A kid,,autobiographical novel by Auguste Brepson, 1927
Crime:
The young man
in the postcard below
wears the cummerbund
of the "apaches,"
the first modern street gangs
* They take the name of the American West's Apaches for their frightening connotation.
The cummerbund, often red
Zoom (please scroll down) |
It is often worn by métro diggers who won major strikes in 1901. The apaches appropriate it for its prestige and by evoking strikers, to show that they do not work.
Revolt: It breaks out when strikers
When a Communist deputy from the 13th urges workers to vote, he is aggressed and arrested.
What remains of the cité: This plaque... " [...] hovels in a neighborhood that undergoes rapid industrialization [...] A center of revolt as much as of insalubrité and delinquency, the Cité Jeanne d'Arc brings muscular repression, but also philanthropy. In 1934 a movement that announces the Popular Front appears: the insurgents raise barricades [...]" |
That's all.
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