THE MONARCHS BUILT WIDE, STRAIGHT STREETS THAT LED TO SYMBOLS OF ROYALTY
Haussmann used that model in a way that went far beyond the central network the last page describes.
The artery that leads from the heart of the left bank through distant, poverty-stricken, radicalized 13th, with a new church that broadcast obedience as its point of focus is an example:
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In the working-class neighborhood of the southeast
Rue Jeanne d'Arc
The church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Gare
As well, the arteries' width made building barricades more difficult and being long and straight allowed bombarding them...
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...should they spring up just the same.
"Building a Barricade on March 19, 1871" (the day after La Commune began) by Arnaud Durbec / zoom.
-- Musée Carnavalet, not exhibited
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Here in the south, tearing down a slum sufficed to build an artery. In the north, a steep hill made such construction impossible, with confounding results (more later). In the wealthy, conservative west, there are no such designs.
In the east,a canal brought a problem.
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