THE VOID OF PLACE SAINT-MICHEL LETS AN ARMY ASSEMBLE, TO FIGHT ON THE SPOT OR GO ON TO THE WORKING-CLASS SOUTH
It is much larger than traffic demands:
The space divides to frame the monumental fountain, a scission that emphasizes its message:
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That message is of Socialism's defeat: The saint represents the Second Empire, Satan Socialism and the monsters its false doctrines, tamed and inoffensive.
-- Place Saint-Michel by Grégoire Allessandri, 2012 (in French)
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Pamela Spurdon
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The work celebrates crushing the workers' insurrection of 1848 and is inaugurated on Napoleon III's saint's day.
(In 1860)
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A public that has not heard of that upheaval
cannot grasp the reason for the void
or understand the fountain's message.
But while noticing that the space
is much too big for traffic should be easy,
almost no one does.
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