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PARIS IN TURMOIL - ERIC HAZAN GEBUNDEN

Since the disastrous Pompidou years  working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away  either
by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization. Take for example a small
outlying district populated by Arabs  blacks and poor whites twenty years ago  the L'Olive
neighbourhood north of La Chapelle The area is noted as pleasant  people frequent it and
explore it  and as the rents are low some settle there. Others follow  first friends and then
anyone else. Rents go up  buildings are renovated  bars open  then an organic food shop  a
vegan restaurant... The earlier indigenous inhabitants are driven out by the rising rents and
settle further away  in Saint-Denis if they are lucky  or else in Garges-lès-Gonesse 
Goussainville or God knows where. But new neighbourhoods are emerging  for example the Chinese
quarter of Bas Belleville  which has grown since the 1970s to the point that in some streets 
such as Rue Civiale or Rue Rampal  the restaurants and shops are all Chinese  with many Chinese
sex workers on Boulevard de la Villette. These Chinese almost all come from Wenzhou  a large
province south of Shanghai  whose inhabitants are reputedly known for their commercial skills.
Paris is constantly changing as a living organism  both for better and for worse. This book is
an incitement to open our eyes and lend an ear to the tumult of this incomparable capital  from
the Périphérique to Place Vendôme  its markets of Aligre and Belleville  its cafés and tabacs 
its history from Balzac to Sartre. In some thirty succinct vignettes  from bookshops to beggars
Art Nouveau to street sounds  Parisian writers to urban warts  Jacobins to Surrealism  Hazan
offers a host of invaluable aperçus  illuminated by a matchless knowledge of his native city.

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