III.2. THE EAST, WHERE NEW WORLDS EMERGE

MENU: 3.2. The east: New worlds appear

 

TRAGIC PAST AND MODERN CREATIVITY 

These pages concern the former villages of Belleville and Ménilmontant, but the same factors underlie the east as a whole. 

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Urban transformation forced a turbulent working class to move from the center to distant heights...

(In the mid-1850's)

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Where it threatened elites again.

Histoire de la Révolution de 1870-1871 by Jules Claretie, 1872

Building barricades when the Paris Commune breaks out.

 Opposition lives on.

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

In brief

• Memories of insurrection

• A place where the arts spring up 

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Memories of insurrection