II.2.4.g. IMMIGRANTS ENERGIZE TRADITION

 

MENU: 2.2.4.f. Immigrants energize tradition

LEGENDARY FRANCE AND IMMIGRANT ENERGY MIX BEYOND

THE GATE

Interconnections

• Traditional France on the trade route now

• Here 72 languages are said to be spoken

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Traditional France on the trade route now

TRADITIONAL FRANCE ON THE TRADE ROUTE NOW

THE SUN KING'S TRIUMPHAL ARCH TOWERS OVER THE ROUTE

THAT LED TO THE ROYAL GRAVES

Traces of opulence adorn the kings' great street:

Catholic roots 

A school

The restaurant where Edith Piaf  would wait for Marcel Cerdan,* world-known boxer and the man of her life, at table n° 24. 

*He trained at the center on the other side of the street, at n° 57.

  Bouillon Julien

 N° 16 

Modernized traditions: gourmet shops, left-wing mobilization, fashion, a café, a wine shop, a kiosque...

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Here 72 languages are said to be spoken

HERE 72 LANGUAGES ARE SAID TO BE SPOKEN

DYNAMISM NOW

 Indian and Pakistani gastronomy at a surviving covered passage

(Passage Brady at n° 46)

The African in the orange robe has just finished a street performance.

He is 17

Bai Ganio
10 rue des Petites Écuries (on your left)
Bulgarian specialties since 1990

Derya

16 rue du faubourg Saint Denis
Since 1988

A Turkish family restaurant from which you can look out onto the street

Kurdish bread

A young Cameroonian donating Easter flowers to the church dedicated to Saint Louise de Marillac

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You can follow the venerable pilgrimage route

to the Saint-Denis Basilica...

or take it in reverse

to notice what may have escaped you:

End of this chapter.

The next chapter is about outskirts,

and Parisian energy now.

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II.3.

Vitality on the other side of the tracks