CHEAP WARES MAKE BARBÈS THE MOST VISITED
PART OF THE CITY
Illegal parking, pickpockets, crowds and a market whose exuberance comes from unbeatable prices:
Discover Walks blog, source Diaspora Blogspot (gone from the web)
After the market (notice the painting).
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Boulevard Barbès, the dividing line between upscale Montmartre and La Goutte d'Or / Barbès:
Adapted from a Google map
- Vestiges of elegance and pleasure
Kata
34 rue Barbès
- A street for such deals as recycled phones and jeans
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Jeans at the background, 25€
- People
I met these brothers by admiring the blue turban the younger is wearing, which he sold me. We corresponded for a time by email; he told me about his goats.
Struck by this young woman's braids I asked if I could photograph her, saying that it would contribute to the positive view of the neighborhood. She accepted in spite of the reticence you feel in the picture, an example of the graciousness one often meets here.
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During Ramadan culinary specialties line the streets for feasts when the sun goes down:
- On boulevard de Rochechouart
- On rue de la Goutte d'Or (immediately behind the boulevard)
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Across from the métro at any time :
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After dark, conviviality...
(Rue de La Goutte d'Or)
Or the ambiance of a detective movie:
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The mix, friendliness and vitality make one think of New York,
and Parisians themselves may be changing their minds:
Sign at a bus stop in the 13th
The print (highlighted and translated in yellow) is tiny, yet present.
"Barbès don't panic!"
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