Manning the barricades on rue des Gravilliers |
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I discovered sometime after I had rented an apartment for the month of May in Paris, that the street in which the apartment was located was mentioned in Hugo's Les Miserables. It was in rue des Gravilliers and rue du Poirier that the barricades were first erected in the 1832 student uprising described in the novel.
When you look down on the street from above in Google Maps, in some places the roof tops almost meet, so its narrowness must have actually made this kind of street ripe for armed resistance. Now it is part of the 3rd Arondissement near the Beaubourg, Les Halles, and the oldest continuing market in Paris: Le petit marché des Enfants-Rouges.
In Paris, I will be seeing Michael, Elizabeth and Barry. I'll introduce them in the narrative. I'm looking forward to eating, concerts, operas, galleries, churches, ruins, cemeteries, the metro and walks.
When you look down on the street from above in Google Maps, in some places the roof tops almost meet, so its narrowness must have actually made this kind of street ripe for armed resistance. Now it is part of the 3rd Arondissement near the Beaubourg, Les Halles, and the oldest continuing market in Paris: Le petit marché des Enfants-Rouges.
In Paris, I will be seeing Michael, Elizabeth and Barry. I'll introduce them in the narrative. I'm looking forward to eating, concerts, operas, galleries, churches, ruins, cemeteries, the metro and walks.
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