COULD THIS FORGOTTEN, SUPPOSEDLY FRIGHTENING NEIGHBORHOOD BE A FUTURE TOURISTIC HUB?
Here are reasons for thinking so.
In brief
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Thursday, February 28, 2019
3.8.1. MÉTRO RENOVATION FOR TOURISM?
OVERCROWDED AND DELAPIDATED, THE CHÂTEAU ROUGE MÉTRO STATION HAD TO BE RENOVATED
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But luxurious hand-painted tiles compose the decor now.
They come from the Sèvres National Manufactory, which Louis XV founded in 1740...
The establishment in 1817 / zoom
...that Cameroon's Barthélémy Toguo, a former resident of La Goute d'Or, painted by hand.
Photo and article (in French) / zoom
The National Library exhibited his work in 2024.
Roots represent the diversity of residents' origins.
The décor combines royal culture and immigration.
To welcome outsiders?
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
3.8.2. THE BARBÈS HUB
THE MÉTRO CONNECTS WITH THE REST OF PARIS...
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| Adapted from the official (RATP) map |
*Northern Station
Adapted from a Google map
Barbès is the most accessible part of the city.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019
3.8.4. ANOTHER BARBÈS MONUMENT: A 1920's CINEMA
THE LOUXOR MOVIE THEATER, NEXT TO THE BARBÈS MÉTRO
The page on the station says more.
The theater in 1930
Gone from the web (cropped)
3.8.3. THE BARBÈS MÉTRO STATION
THIS INDUSTRIAL MONUMENT OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY IS A NEIGHBOROOD SYMBOL...
...that provides space for exhibits and performances and a walkway waiting to be put to use:
- Paintings can hang from the ribbon of steel under the rails:
Les Intruses ("The Female Intruders"), by the photographer Randa Marufi for the Institute of Islamic Cultures, 2020 / zoom
- It overlooks a painted path that is adapted to skateboarding, bicycling, training, performances and exhibits:
The Compagnie Gaby Sourire and Faun Arts,
Installation by Ange et Dam
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An "urban promenade" uniting the Barbès, La Chapelle and Stalingrad stops was planned in 2019...
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Map obtained through the link above |
1.28 kilometers
But covid and a press that called it "the great waste, a "court of miracles, requisitioned by peddlers, delinquents and migrants," led to abandoning it.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
3.8.5. THE WASH HOUSE THAT LITERATURE IMMORTALIZED
WRITTEN ON THE FACADE: "MADAME MINISTER OF CULTURE, PROTECT THIS THEATER"
For 20 years a developer tried to obtain the site where Zola set "The Drinking Den's" key scene. When the Socialists won the 2020 municipal elections, the City acquired it instead.
The Lavoir Moderne Parisien
35 rue Leon
The novel
Theater poster
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Anonymous, 1877 / zoom |
The key opening scene
For the complete fight in Gervaise by René Clément with Maria Schell, 1956, please click.
After an epic combat the heroine joyously spanks her rival on her bare backside. She will take revenge...
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The second floor is used for events. On the ground floor, a bar, a salon and a theater instead of a place a developer owns...
Bar and salon A singer rehearses
Maya, a Voice, a musical in French and English: the story of writer Maya Angelou with Ursuline Kairson
A characteristic program (end of March, 2023)
...because the City stepped in.
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Sunday, February 17, 2019
3.8.6. THE INSTITUTE FOR THE CULTURES OF ISLAM...
PRESENTS MUSLIM REACTIONS TO THE WORLD
Two sites show how Muslim artists living in France view their cultures of origin.
- At rue Leon, the painting on the facade regularly changes
- At rue Stephenson
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Some exhibits concern artists personal reactions to their cultures
- Mounds of tangled threads around which one must tread carefully represent memories to which one must not refer.
"Family Photos" by Oassila Arras, of Algerian origin
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- Paintings evoke uprooting by linking a Syrian poet's verses to symbols of the sky.
Dialogues by Himat L. Ali, of Iraki origin
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- Others renew traditional cultures
- A modern portrait and a Persian past
Cyrus and the Odor of Lilies by Ryan Yasineh, of Iranian origin
- Ethnic roots can be emphatically expressed*
*Photos from the web, artists not named and no key to the works' intentions
This photo and the two below by Jérôme Ferembach, tour guide
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At rue Leon, place to appreciate North African cuisine
The Institute follows Islam's command for charity:
Please click back.
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Saturday, February 16, 2019
3.8.7. DETOUR: A REPLY ON MAGA VIEW OF ISLAM
FEW CHRISTIANS KNOW THAT "ISSA" — JESUS — IS A GREAT PROPHET OF ISLAM. AS MOHAMMED'S FORERUNNER IT IS HE WHO WILL ANNOUNCE THE END OF TIMES
Anti-Muslim videos do not seek reality, but to divide by dehumanization and fear. A walk through La Goutte d'Or contrasts.
Petty crime: For boys who sell contraband, please click.
Street prayers: Here they were held until 2012, when the City granted an interior space. They could frighten, or impress by their fervor and discipline (and as a way to form turbulent youth).
Seen from a restaurant on rue Myrha
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- Generosity: Messages on the walls welcome to immigrants and demand dignity and justice.
During Ramadan
Free daily distribution of meals to take away
(don't forget your recipient),
from June 6 at 18:30 to July 30 2016
Hate engenders hate.
- Charity: The Institute for the Cultures of Islam follows the Muslim command with food distribution...
The Open Table.
Distribution of meals,
7/7 to noon and at 5 pm.
- Tolerance: A store for Muslim books and wares and a wine shop face each other. A poster for Joan of Arc, heroine of the ultra-Catholic right, is on a wall nearby...
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Librairie Bazar
17 rue Myrha
What looks like teapots are for ablutions before prayer.
La Cave de Don Dondine
16 rue Myrha
Joan of Arc, When God Saved France
Just plain niceness: A passage from the Koran adorns this spartan restaurant. For its cuisine, please click.
Amiability is one reason why visiting this largely Muslim area is a pleasure.
The videos cherry-pick
to fit a point of view determined in advance.
This page comes from innumerable visits,
and shows reality.
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