V. CRADLE OF UPHEAVAL

 5. MENU: Cradle of upheaval

DREAD OF INSURRECTION BECOMES THE SECOND REASON FOR THE CITY'S BEAUTY WHEN AN AUTHORITARIAN REGIME EXTENDS ROYAL INNOVATIONS TO FACILITATE REPRESSION

The "City of Love" is a commercial invention. The"City of Insurrection" that inspired the whole Continent is skipped.

     Ad on the Louvre

     Barricade in Ménilmontant when La Commune broke out / zoom, musée Carnavalet

Not exhibited 

These pages address that gap.

• Setting the past in its tangible context 

• 1830: the people fooled

• 1848: fooled again

• The first mass working-class insurrection brings modern Europe's first mass massacre

• The historical museum and the insurrections

• Fear, unlikely promoter of urban grandeur

• Remaking the city

• Gifts of the repression

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Setting the past in its tangible context