Paris from fresh perspectives: THE MULTITUDE ON AVENUE D'IVRY

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Saturday, November 6, 2021

THE MULTITUDE ON AVENUE D'IVRY

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0. Ignored gaps reveal another past (1)
0.1. How these views began (1)
0.2. Thanks! (1)
0.3. Details (1)
0.4. Contents (1)
1. WHAT MAKES FRANCE DISTINCT (1)
1.1. Setting the scene (1)
1.2. Players: legendary or unsung (1)
1.2.1. Kings at heart of French civ. (1)
1.2.2. Court women's gift of refinement (1)
1.2.3. Church monarchy's partner (1)
1.2.4. Small farms' impact (1)
1.2.5. Rebels' demand for justice (1)
1.2.6. Exiles & expats (1)
1.2.7. French language: an explosive gift (1)
1.2.8. Immigrant energies (1)
2. AN UNSUSPECTED CITY (1)
2.1. The logic of the legendary core (1)
2.1.1. A spectral rampart (4)
2.1.2. Saint-Germain: rampart heir (10)
2.1.3. Lords step out from the shadows (6)
2.1.4. Back to the rampart On to the river (5)
2.1.5. Palaces: glory & demise (10)
2.2. Brands take over the historic center (1)
2.2.1. Palais-Royal now (7)
2.2.2. Left-bank oasis & recent past (6)
2.2.3. "Real" Paris's affordable shopping (8)
2.3. TRDE RTE FR PILGRMS & KINGS (1)
2.3.1. Medieval spirits linger (9)
2.3.2. The street of royal power (9)
2.3.3. Erasing rebel neighborhoods (1)
2.3.4. Crime. Nobles. Garment district (6)
2.3.5. Louis's arc looms over the route (1)
2.3.6. Toward the horizon (6)
2.3.7. Immigrants energize tradition (3)
2.4. To do with children (or without them) (1)
2.4.1. If you come with little boys (1)
2.4.2. Street art & true story (4)
2.4.3. A wood where children play (1)
2.4.4. Louvre through kids' sharp eyes (8)
2.4.5. New horizons (1)
2.5. NOBLES GODS AND HEROES (1)
2.5.1. The force of hereditary rank (1)
2.5.2. Everything aids the overclass (1)
2.5.3. Allegory: nobles' vs. capitalists (1)
2.5.4. Real stories & political messages (1)
2.5.5. Chrch gves hmble bodies of gods (1)
2.5.6. Rubens's decor for a queen (1)
2.5.7. Plea for peace & threat of revolt (1)
2.5.8. Detour: Anecdotes or economy? (1)
2.6. The gods' modernity (1)
2.6.1. First great work of defiance (1)
2.6.2. Goddess a plebeian revolutionary (1)
2.6.3. The goddess's descendants (1)
2.7. WHAT OPERA TOURS WON'T SAY (1)
2.7.1. A palace for a new elite (4)
2.7.2. Backers sex & money (6)
2.7.3. Blackout? (5)
2.7.4. From nymphs to Nazis (3)
3. VITALITY ON OTHER SIDE TRACKS (1)
3.1. Europe's "Chinatown" (1)
3.1.1. A walk where cultures mix (4)
3.1.2. Colors of streets & shops (4)
3.1.3. High-rises ahead of their time (6)
3.1.4. Beyond the towers (5)
3.1.5. Some of the restaurants (5)
3.1.6. Asians emerge from shadows (4)
3.2. The east: New worlds appear (1)
3.2.1. Memories of insurrection (5)
3.2.2. Where the arts spring up (5)
3.3. A path through "real Paris" (1)
3.4. "Barbès don't panic" (1)
3.4.1. Back to the wine tax (1)
3.4.2. A dark past forgotten now (1)
3.4.3. A métro station & a movie theater (1)
3.4.4. Toward La Goutte d'Or (1)
3.4.5. The media (1)
3.4.6. (Not very) threatening youth (1)
3.4.7. Take another look (1)
3.5. ENERGY OF LA GOUTTE D'OR (1)
3.5.1. A setting of "Gauls" (8)
3.5.2. Art known mainly to neighbors (7)
3.5.3. First steps in another land (8)
3.5.4. "Looks:" a sociable art (10)
3.5.5. Textiles & Tailors (8)
3.5.6. A couturier for Kenzo &... (5)
3.5.7. Gentrification with brakes (6)
3.5.8. "Emerging design hub of Paris" (5)
3.5.9. Africans' buoyant creativity (5)
3.5.9.x. Suddenly visible Blacks (8)
3.5.9.xx Tomorrow's destination? (8)
3.5.9.xxx A plce Gtrd. Stein wd hv liked... (4)
4. WHY IS THE CITY SO GRAND? (1)
4.1. Majesty on a human scale (1)
4.1.1. A parade route changes course (11)
4.1.2. The milestones' meanings (7)
4.1.3. Design inconceivable elsewhere (6)
4.1.4. The royal imprint blossoms (5)
4.1.5. The curtain falls (13)
4.2. A modern royal city (1)
4.2.1. The Grand Axis as model (1)
4.2.2. Perspectives & city's grandeur (1)
4.2.3. "Places" stay royal (1)
4.2.4. Detour: Victors on horseback (1)
4.2.5. Detour: heroes on white horses (1)
4.3. Have the kings become subversive? (4)
4.3. KINGS BECOME SUBVERSIVE? (1)
5. CRADLE OF UPHEAVAL (1)
5.1. History: which facts? (1)
5.1.1. "Liberty Equality Fraternity"... (1)
5.1.2. 1830: capitalists' neglectd triumph (1)
5.1.3. Boring history: a tool (1)
5.2. 1830: The people fooled (1)
5.2.1. Class goals diverge (1)
5.2.2. Faceless poor & bourgeois heroes (1)
5.2.3. More on bourgeois heros (1)
5.2.4. Freedom's ambiguous painting (1)
5.2.5. A lame homage to the plebes (1)
5.2.6. The July Column: as evasive (1)
5.2.7. Victor Hugo's "Time of riots" (1)
5.2.8. An intelligent ogre checks in (1)
5.2.9. Algeria enters France's story (1)
5.3. 1848: fooled again (1)
5.3.1. Insurrection by accident (1)
5.3.2. 1848: Schism looms (1)
5.3.3. Popular discipline terrifies (1)
5.3.4. The upheaval overwhelms Europe (1)
5.3.5. Feudal rulers emerge still stronger (1)
5.4. WORKER INSURRECTION (1)
5.4.1. A republic for the happy few (1)
5.4.2. Workers' revolt announces future (1)
5.4.3. Provincial nobles answer call (1)
5.4.4. Young delinquents join in (1)
5.4.5. Empathy from a countess alone (1)
5.4.6. An authoritarian comes to power (1)
5.5. Historical museum & insurrections (1)
5.5.1. Spectacular homage to elites (1)
5.5.2. Fr Revolution almost peaceful (1)
5.5.3. Revolts shown before renovation (1)
5.5.4. 1830: modish fighters (1)
5.5.5. 1848: Fighting is (almost) deleted (1)
5.5.6. June 1848 gets two sentences... (1)
5.5.7. Barricades: a game for kids (1)
5.6. FEAR & URBAN GRANDEUR (1)
5.7. Remaking the city (1)
5.7.1. An "ounce of prevention" (1)
5.7.2. Open the town to the army (1)
5.7.3. Huge spaces to assemble troops (1)
5.7.4. A fountain to crush socialism (1)
5.7.5. New arteries' military purpose (1)
5.7.6. A "masterly line" cuts thru the east (1)
5.7.7. Grand voids of the blue-collar east (1)
5.7.8. A similar site shows... (1)
5.7.9. A void whose core is empty... (1)
5.7.9.x Notre-Dame: eternity to repressn (1)
5.7.9.xx Planned shelling's happy results (1)
5.7.9.xxx The hospital garden (1)
5.8. Gifts of repression (1)
5.8.1. Adapting royal majesty (1)
5.8.2. Beauty whose brutal start ignored (1)
5.8.3. Progressives hijack strts & spaces (1)
5.8.4. A market replaces an army (1)
6. LA COMMUNE (1)
6.1. Egalitarianism breaks through (1)
6.2. "The Terrible Year:" 1870-1871... (1)
6.2.1. A war of choice brings disaster (10)
6.2.2. Explosion (8)
6.2.3. Civil war & carnage (11)
6.2.4. Ruins. Revenge. Evolution. (10)
6.3. Mystification (1)
6.3.1. The victors' view (6)
6.3.2. The view now (7)
6.3.3. Two historians fight back (2)
6.4. Fraternity that worked (1)
6.4.1. Pariahs take charge of their lives (1)
6.4.2. Leaders we wish we had (1)
6.4.3. Victories of La Commune (1)
6.4.5. A rooted memory (1)
6.4.6. "Friends of the Paris Commune" (1)
6.5. An omen and a turning point (1)
6.5.1. A foretaste of genocide (1)
6.5.2. Toward the 20th century (1)
7. A COMMUNARD BASTION (1)
7.1. The fight for the hilltop (1)
7.1.1. Frenzied combat (1)
7.1.2. Communard fighters (1)
7.1.3. The Communard spirit continues (1)
7.1.4. A panel mentions La Commune... (1)
7.2. An epicenter of misery (1)
7.2.1. Vanished industry (1)
7.2.2. Disease. Crime. Revolt (1)
7.3. Third-world rev. training ground (1)
7.4. An outskirt that used to be chilling (1)
8. A PAST FORGOTTEN & INDELIBLE (1)
8.1. In the footsteps of "demons" (1)
8.1.1. Church where last battle fought (1)
8.1.2 .Passage by which survivors fled (1)
8.1.3. Street with City-run residences (1)
8.1.4. Sculptures. Bikes. Gyms. Gardens (1)
8.1.5. More services. More gardens... (1)
8.1.6. Electn posters in a real democracy (1)
8.2. Shops Communards wd hv valued (1)
8.3. LOST INDUSTRY'S TRACES (1)
8.3.1. Gardens replace a sugar refinery (1)
8.3.2. Giant park on a gas-making site (1)
8.3.3. Posters on park railings (1)
8.4. Cluster of unstandardized arts (1)
8.4.1. Giant murals announce the 13th (1)
8.4.2. Street art cheers gray winters (1)
8.4.3. Arts that City Hall promotes (1)
8.4.4. Arts discovered by chance (1)
8.5. A district that leans left (1)
8.5.1. Part of a Social-Democratic city (1)
8.5.2. Posters & signs (1)
8.5.3. The May Day parade begins (1)
8.6. The city's newest festival (1)
8.6.1. A banquet under the aerial métro (1)
8.6.2. Asians launch the fête (1)
8.6.3. The arts through new techniques (1)
8.6.4. Silent movies in the park (1)
8.6.5. Ethnic dancers from neighborhood (1)
8.6.6. Drums. Dance. Music. Juggling (1)
8.6.7. Grand Finale (1)
8.7. More gifts from City Hall (1)
8.8. A place to pitch your tent? (1)
8.9. WHAT HAPPENED: THE WAR DID (1)
8.9.1. "Better Hitler than Blum"... (1)
8.9.2. Conservatives & the Resistance (1)
9. EPILOGUES (1)
9.2. "Don't you have an agenda?" (1)
9.3."Yr teachng Comunsm to th police!" (1)
9.4. "Yr misled but not bought. Join us!" (1)
x. INDEX (1)
x.i. Importance of the economic base (1)
x.ii. Omissions by trusted authorities (1)
x.iii. Dramas show how things work (1)
x.iv. Notice anomalies & details (1)
x.v. Priorities that urban designs reveal (1)
x.v. Visits based on observation (1)
x.vi. Mythology & nbles' claim of primacy (1)
x.vii. Outskirts: cauldrons of the arts (1)
x.viii. Recommendations (1)

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