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Thursday, July 28, 2011

VIII.1. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF "DEMONS"

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THE STREETS BY WHICH THE COMMUNARDS FLED SHOW HOW THE AREA'S SPECIFICITY IS THE RESULT OF THEIR TIMES 

We start with the passage by which they fled.

Harald Wolff
The huge space behind the church, built to let the army assemble with horses and cannons, must be the place "in the west" where fiery Serizier and his battalion of "demons" fought their last battle (for the context, please click back here, here and here), and the path behind it where survivors fled.

The route:

Adapted from a map of about 1900 / zoom

The first street:
          Photo by Eugène Adjet, 1925 / zoom
 204 rue du Château des Rentiers

N° 120: The caretaker of a City-run establishment for seniors chats with a resident.