AN OBSCURE VOID HIGHLIGHTS THE THREAT OF INSURRECTIONS

THE PATTERN OF ARTERY, POINT OF FOCUS AND VOID  APPEARS BEYOND THE RIVER... 

(ARTERY BUILT IN 1854, CHURCH IN 1858)

In the poverty-stricken, tumultuous 13th:

       Adapted from a document in the Bibliothèque nationale / zoom

Barricades of June 1848

The dome of the Pantheon, close to the city's center, appears in the background.

 Notre-Dame de la Gare, one of the churches built to encourage obedience.

The space now allows a market: There is room for stands, trucks, parked cars and traffic. 

The neighborhood shows other ways in which

its tempestuous past affects its present.

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Next,

Voids align along the Grand Axis —  

with two exceptions