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The Life and Death of Paris’s Red Belt

By: Daniel Finn

How discontent over housing, and not workplace struggle, made Paris’s suburbs hotbeds of communism.

If you spend any time in the suburbs dotted around the Paris metropolitan area and you’re blessed with even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century history, you’ll soon begin to notice a pattern in the street names. Take the Métro line 13, for example, from the tourist-friendly city center until you reach the main stop in […]

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If you spend any time in the suburbs dotted around the Paris metropolitan area and you’re blessed with even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century history, you’ll soon begin to notice a pattern in the street names. Take the Métro line 13, for example, from the tourist-friendly city center until you reach the main stop in […]

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If you spend any time in the suburbs dotted around the Paris metropolitan area and you’re blessed with even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century history, you’ll soon begin to notice a pattern in the street names. Take the Métro line 13, for example, from the tourist-friendly city center until you reach the main stop in […]

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If you spend any time in the suburbs dotted around the Paris metropolitan area and you’re blessed with even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century history, you’ll soon begin to notice a pattern in the street names. Take the Métro line 13, for example, from the tourist-friendly city center until you reach the main stop in […]