MENU: 4.2. Fear: promoter of urban grandeur
AN OFFICIAL'S WIFE
"TREMBLED EXTREMELY,
FOR SHE HAD JUST HEARD,
ON AN ORGAN,
A POLKA THAT WAS AN INSURGENT'S SIGNAL"
-- Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, 1869
Paris underwent a transformation
like that of no other city
in a mere 16 years (1853-1869),
due to the terror the poor instilled
after a major insurrection
was ferociously repressed.
Typical houses before and after
the transformation
Background, Liberty leading the people by Eugene Delacroix, 1831, zoom
Boulevard Montmartre in spring by Camille Pissaro, 1897 / zoom
In brief
Next,
- Modern Europe's first great massacre
- Metamorphosis
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