VII.2. AN EPICENTER OF MISERY

MENU: 6.2. An epicenter of misery  

"THE 13th DISTRICT IS BY FAR THE MOST MISERABLE OF PARIS WHERE THE MOST TOXIC ELEMENTS OF ITS POPULATION FIND REFUGE"

-- Belinda Carter, Suffering Paris, "Paris treizième" (in French)

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Fog on Tolbiac bridge by Léo Malet (first published 1956), illustrated by Jacques Tardi (Castermann, 1988)

"Get out of here, Belita. 

Go dump your flowers wherever you like,
but get out of this place.

It will crush you, as it has others.  

 It stinks too much of misery, shit and misfortune." 

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Its story until the 1970's

• Vanished industry

• Disease, crime and revolt 

• A Third-World revolutionaries' training ground

• "A lost district at the city's edge"

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