II.3.2. EASTERN PARIS, WHERE NEW WORLDS EMERGE

MENU: 2.3.2. Eastern Paris: New worlds emerge

 

TERRITORY WHERE A TRAGIC PAST AND MODERN CREAVITY MIX

Urban transformation let the government control the turbulent center by forcing laborers to move to distant heights...

(In the mid-1850's)

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

...where they threatened it again.

History of the Revolution of 1870-1871 by Jules Claretie, 1872 (in French)

Building barricades somewhere in the east when the Paris Commune breaks out.

In brief

• Memories of insurrection

• Preliminary fracas: the mad "Descent from la Courtille"

• Toward the Belleville crossroad

• Ménilmontant, where walls turn into art galleries

• Kitsch and class

• "To feel the real pulse of the city, go east"

• Bars and music 

• "Real Paris" and a path that streams through the east

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Memories of insurrection