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0. Noticing what's skipped (1)
0.1. Blook is dedicated to NJ cops (1)
0.2. How these views began (1)
0.3. Thanks! (1)
0.4. Using this blook (1)
0.5. 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 social 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 OF SHADOW (8)
2.1.4. Back to the rampart On to the river (5)
2.1.5. Palaces: glory & demise (10)
2.1.6. Palais-Royal now (7)
2.2. BRANDS TAKE OVER CENTER (1)
2.2.1. Ads hover over the river (1)
2.2.2. Left-bank oasis & recent past (7)
2.2.3. Willfully erasing the past (5)
2.2.4. Shun the grotesque profits (8)
2.3. TRDE RTE FR PILGRMS & KINGS (1)
2.3.1. The street of royal power (10)
2.3.2. Medieval spirits linger (10)
2.3.3. Transforming 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 & game for kids (4)
2.4.3. A mini-wood where children play (1)
2.4.4. New horizons (1)
2.4.5. Introduction to the Louvre (7)
2.5. NOBLES GODS AND HEROES (1)
2.5.1. The primacy of hereditary rank (1)
2.5.2. Everything aids the overclass (1)
2.5.3. Heroes of glamorized war (1)
2.5.4. Allegory: nobles vs. new captalists (4)
2.5.5. The Church omits pagan decor... (1)
2.5.6. 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)
2.8. From nymphs to Nazis (1)
2.8.1. Place Vendôme & the Occupation (1)
2.8.2. Why Paris didn't burn (1)
3. VITALITY ON OTHER SIDE TRACKS (1)
3.1. EUROPE'S CHINATOWN (1)
3.1. Majesty on a human scale (1)
3.1.1. A walk where cultures mix (4)
3.1.2. Colors of streets & shops (4)
3.1.3. High-rises built too soon (6)
3.1.4. Panel that skips what counts (1)
3.1.5. Beyond the towers (5)
3.1.6. Some of the restaurants (5)
3.1.7. Asians emerge from shadows (7)
3.1.8. Ads: the ultimate acceptance (1)
3.2. EAST: NEW WORLDS EMERGE (1)
3.2.1. Memories of insurrection (5)
3.2.2. Streets where art springs up (5)
3.3. 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 forgotten past (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. Ramadan gourmet specialties (1)
3.4.8. 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." an amiable art (11)
3.5.5. Textiles & Tailors (9)
3.5.6. A couturier for Kenzo &... (5)
3.5.7. Gentrification with brakes (6)
3.5.8. "Emerging design hub of Paris" (7)
3.5.9. A tiny restaurant & take-out (1)
3.6. UPBEAT CREATIVITY (1)
3.6.1. At the markets (1)
3.6.2. Foire d'Afrique ("African fair") (1)
3.6.3. A trade show (1)
3.6.4. Honoring forgotten soldiers (1)
3.6.5. Ignorance of the New York Times (1)
3.7. SUDDENLY VISIBLE BLACKS (1)
3.7.1. City honors heroes of color (1)
3.7.2. "Chocolat": the first Black star (1)
3.7.3. France welcomed Af-Americans... (1)
3.7.4. "Negritude:" wider appreciation (1)
3.7.5. Immigrants' offspring ok'd at last (1)
3.7.6. Ads reveal the shift (1)
3.7.7. Questioning ads' new diversity (1)
3.8. TOMORROW'S DESTINATION? (1)
3.8.1. Métro renovation for tourism? (1)
3.8.2. The Barbès hub (1)
3.8.3. The Barbès métro station (1)
3.8.4. Also at Barbès: a 1920's cinema (1)
3.8.5. Wash house literature immortalizd (1)
3.8.6. Institute for the Cultures of Islam (1)
3.8.7. Detour: reply to MAGA on Islam (1)
3.8.8. World & urban culture for planet? (1)
3.8.9. Portal toward music of outskirts (1)
3.9. GTRD. STEIN WD APPRECIATE (1)
3.9.1. A take-out (1)
3.9.2. A picnic where sculptures play (1)
3.9.3. Whn publc only valud clssic wks... (1)
4. WHY IS THE CITY SO GRAND? (1)
4.1. PARADE RT CHANGES COURSE (1)
4.1.1. From "joyous" to "royal" entry (1)
4.1.2. Path that linked kings & ancestors (1)
4.1.3. Importance of St. Denis Basilica (1)
4.1.4. Where Gothic architecture began (1)
4.1.5. Detour: rt.-wing medieval imagery (1)
4.1.6. France's first straight street... (1)
4.1.7. Drop ancestors hail power! (1)
4.1.8. Revolt at la Bastille (1)
4.1.9. Detour: Love wins out — alas (1)
4.2. MILESTONES' MEANINGS (1)
4.2.1. Paris's first straight street (1)
4.2.2. The "place" ancestor of all (1)
4.2.3. Successive statues place Vosges (1)
4.2.4. Church changes way to salvation (1)
4.2.5. Royal statue for a bridge (1)
4.2.6. King among his people (1)
4.3. DESIGN IMPOSSIBLE ELSEWHRE (1)
4.3.1. Victories lead to razing rampart (1)
4.3.2. Larger arc highlights kingship (1)
4.3.3. Effects of demolition on Paris (1)
4.3.4. Effect on Europe: Fr. hegemony (1)
4.3.5. Arc launches a nationalist story (1)
4.3.6. Effects of "Passing of the Rhine" (1)
4.3.7. Arcs hover like ghosts over traffic (1)
4.4. ROYAL IMPRINT BLOSSOMS (1)
4.4.1. Straight streets & monarchy (1)
4.4.2. Napoleon's tomb? (1)
4.4.3. Royal "places" multiply (1)
4.4.4. Change begins (1)
4.5. THE CURTAIN FALLS (1)
4.5.1. Queen brks rules she nt understnd (1)
4.5.2. "Ah yes! Tell us about it vicomte"... (1)
4.5.3. "Let them eat cake" (1)
4.5.4. A bubblehead rises to occasion (1)
4.5.5. A greeting announces calamity (1)
4.5.6. Yellow liveries & other puzzles (1)
4.5.7. End of 1500-year old monarchy (1)
4.6. "NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY" (1)
4.6.1. Panic & massacre (1)
4.6.2. A prison that cd have been worse (1)
4.6.3. Disasters (1)
4.6.4.The queen attains grandeur (1)
4.6.5. Louis XVII. Story with no end (1)
4.6.6. Obelisk announces new era (1)
4.6.7. How France became a republic (1)
4.6.8. French Presidents heirs of kings (1)
4.7. A MODERN ROYAL CITY (1)
4.7.1. The Grand Axis as model (1)
4.7.2. Perspectives & city's grandeur (1)
4.7.3. "Places" stay royal (1)
4.7.4. Detour: Victors on horseback (1)
4.7.5. Detour: heroes on white horses (1)
4.8. HVE KNGS BECME SUBVERSVE? (1)
4.8.1. A new society creeps in (1)
4.8.2. Goddesses loom over the city (1)
4.8.3. Kings & globalisation (1)
5. CRADLE OF INNSURRECTION (1)
5.1. HISTORY'S TANGIBLE BASE (1)
5.1.1. Account that makes no sense (1)
5.1.2. "Liberty Equality Fraternity"... (1)
5.1.3. Rev. 1830: capitalist triumph (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 conflicts (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. FIRST 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. MUSEUM & INSURRECTIONS (1)
5.5.1. Spectacular homage to elites (1)
5.5.2. Fr Revolution almost peaceful (1)
5.5.3. Revolts as shown before renovtion (1)
5.5.4. 1830: capitalism wins (1)
5.5.5. Fev.1848: fighting almost deleted (1)
5.5.6. June 1848 gets two sentences... (1)
5.5.7. Barricades become game for kids (1)
5.6. FEAR & URBAN GRANDEUR (1)
5.7. REMAKING THE CITY (1)
5.7.1. "Prevention:" churches & park (1)
5.7.2. Open the town to the army (1)
5.7.3. Giant voids in central Paris (1)
5.7.4. Emperor's fontain crshes socialsm (1)
5.7.5. Model — almost — omnipresent (1)
5.7.6. More voids in the blue-color east (1)
5.7.7. Example highlights fear of revolt (1)
5.7.8. The void with no monument (1)
5.7.9. Notre-Dame: eternity & represson (1)
5.7.9.i. Results of planned bombardment (1)
5.7.9.iii. A canal is covered over (1)
5.8. GIFTS OF THE REPRESSION (1)
5.8.1. Adapting royal majesty (1)
5.8.2. Beauty whse brutal origin forgottn (1)
5.8.3. Prgressves highlt streets & spaces (1)
5.8.4. Market replaces an army (1)
6. LA COMMUNE (1)
6.1. Sources in English (1)
6.2. "THE TERRIBLE YEAR" (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. That view returns (7)
6.3.3. Two historians fight back (2)
6.3.4. General resistance emerges (1)
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)
6.4.4. Rooted (1)
6.4.5. "Friends of the Paris Commune" (1)
6.5. OMEN & TURNING POINT (1)
6.5.1. A foretaste of genocide (1)
6.5.2. Toward the 20th century (1)
7. 13th: 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. Contradictory panels (1)
7.1.4. A panel mentions La Commune... (1)
7.2. 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 VANISHED YET INDELIBLE (1)
8.1. IN FOOTSTEPS OF "DEMONS" (1)
8.1.1. Path by which survivors fled (1)
8.1.2. At the crossroad (1)
8.1.3. A City-run residence (1)
8.1.4. Accessible leadership (1)
8.1.5. Sculpture. Bikes. Gyms. Greening (1)
8.1.6. More services. More gardens... (1)
8.1.7. 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. A giant park on a gas-making site (1)
8.3.3. Posters on park railings (1)
8.3.4. Park festivities: gardens (1)
8.3.5. Park festivities: bikes (1)
8.4. A DISTRICT THAT LEANS LEFT (1)
8.4.1. A Social-Democratic city (1)
8.4.2. Posters & signs (1)
8.4.3. A street becomes pedestrian (1)
8.4.4. May Day parade starts at City Hall (1)
8.5. EPICNTER OF INNOVATIVE ARTS (1)
8.5.1. Bleak walls. Huge murals (1)
8.5.2. Mysterious messages (1)
8.5.3. Arts discovered by chance (1)
8.5.4. Arts & openings due to Mayor (1)
8.6. CITY'S NEWEST FESTIVAL (2)
8.6.1. Banquet under aerial métro (1)
8.6.2. Asians launch the fête (1)
8.6.3. Unprecedented arts (1)
8.6.5. Ethnic shows (1)
8.6.6. Dances that revisit space & time (1)
8.6.7. A walk. Drums. Dance. Jugglers. (1)
8.6.8. 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. Conservatves who joind Resistnce (1)
8.9.3. FUTURE SPRNGS FRM BEHND (1)
9. "DON'T YOU HAVE AN AGENDA?" (1)
x. INDEX (1)
x.i. Importance of the economic base (1)
x.ii. Omissions by trusted authorities (1)
x.iii. Dramas that show how things work (1)
x.iv. Significance of anomalies & details (1)
x.v. Priorities that urban designs reveal (1)
x.v. Visits based on observation (1)
x.vi. Art as a social weapon (1)
x.vii. Outskirts: cauldrons of the arts (1)
x.viii. Recommendations (1)

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