VII. THE OVERLOOKED 13TH, A COMMUNARD BASTION

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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 that is next to a river, a railroad and an outskirt with inexpensive land, the 13th became exceptionally industrialized.

Raw capitalism made the once idyllic area a place 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

These pages explore that past. The next show how it contributed to its modern vitality.

     Boulevard Auriol 

The past

• The fight for the hilltop

• An epicenter of misery

• A Third-World revolutionaries' training ground

• A walk through an outskirt that used to be chilling

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V.II.

The fight for the hilltop