WIDE, STRAIGHT STREETS WITH A POINT OF FOCUS BEGIN AS A WAY TO GLORIFY THE KINGS, AND IN WORKING-CLASS OUTSKIRTS LATER, TO PROSELYTIZE AND REPRESS
Straight, they allow the rapid march of troops, as from the Panthéon* to the tumultuous 13th:
Points of focus strengthen the regime:
Among the churches built to promote obedience
Wide, those streets discourage barricades. Long, they allow bombarding them, since they spring up all the same:
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Internet, source not said |
Building a Barricade on March 19, 1871 (the day after La Commune began) by Arnaud Durbec / zoom
City Museum, not exhibited
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In the south, the government needs only demolish what is in the way:
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Adapted from a Google map |
The 13th, the working-class outskirt in the southeast
In the east,
it's complicated.
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