Monday, November 30, 2020

III.2. THE EAST, WHERE NEW WORLDS EMERGE

MENU: 3.2. The east: New worlds appear
 
THE TRAGIC PAST AND MODERN ENERGY MIX

These pages concentrate on the former villages of Belleville and Ménilmontant, but creativity springs up all over the east. 

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Urban transformation forced laborers to move from the center to distant heights...
(In the mid-1850's)
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Where they threatened elites again.


Building barricades when the Paris Commune breaks out.

 Opposition lives on.

Street art on a truck and "police" written upside down.

Highlights of one of the city's
most ebullient places
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