II.4.2. THE EAST, WHERE NEW WORLDS EMERGE

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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.

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

Building barricades when the Paris Commune breaks out: to be continued.

 Opposition lives on.

Highlights of one of the city's

most ebullient areas

• Memories of insurrection

• The area stays left

• 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 

• A path through "real Paris"

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Memories of insurrection