MENU: 7. A 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, next to the river and a railroad and an outskirt with inexpensive land, it became one of the most industrialized parts of France.
Raw capitalism made the once idyllic area a place of misery.
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Painting (detail) of an inn in the area 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
This section explores that past. The next one shows how much it has changed, and how the hardship of the past is the background to its vitality today.
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I live there.
The past
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