MENU: 7. 13th: COMMUNARD BASTION
THE CITY'S SOUTHEASTERN FRINGE USED TO BE ITS POOREST AREA...
Adapted from a Google map
In the east where prevailing winds blow pollution and on an outskirt where land was inexpensive, the 13th was next to the river and a railroad and became one of the most industrialized areas in France.
Raw capitalism transformed it from an idyllic place to one of misery.
Evocation toward 1820, anonymous (at today's Auberge Ethchegorry)
Paris, 4 place Pinel "Les Chiffonniers" [The Ragmen] by Eugène Atget, toward 1900 / for more photos from the National Library, zoom
The spot now: a statue of a doctor who helped the mentally handicapped, a poster in search of a man who needs urgent help, street art and posters for theater and the left...
Portrait of Dr. Philippe Pinel (d. 1826), who worked at the Salpetrière hospital five minutes away.
The little girl was roller skating and posed for this picture.
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This section explores what seems to be gone. The next shows how the area's modern vitality derives from it.
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In brief
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