MINUTES AWAY FROM THE YOUTHS WHO CLUSTER AT BARBÈS,
TEACHING A VANISHING SKILL
The red sign is that of the workshop. The young men that cluster at the métro are behind the building at the end of the street.
Atelier Maurice Arnoult
8 bis rue des Gardes
It is the only place in France that teaches making women's shoes by hand :
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Maurice Arnault (1898-2010) was a rare French shoemaker in Belleville, when Jewish and Armenian immigrants had made it France's center for hand-made shoes.
(Toward 1920 - 1970)
-- Biography: I, Marcel Arnoult, the Belleville shoemaker by Michel Bloit, 2004 (in French)
- He helped several Jews escape the Nazis and is one of The Righteous among the Nations honored at Yad Vashem:
The man in the background was a child whom Maurice Arnault saved from a raid: A brief video tells that story (in French). For his life at that time and a story that is as dramatic, please click and scroll down.
- High-flying customers walked up the shabby workshop stairs, where he made or repaired shows without charging people who could not pay.
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| Circle of study of the deportation and Shoah (in French) / Laurence Krongelb |
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Young people without school degrees and legal immigrants
may participate in a three-day initiation.
Passing it leads to 624 hours of training
for employment in the leather-working trades.
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