Roissy Express: A Journey Through the Paris SuburbsAccompanied by photographer Anaik Frantz, Francois Maspero embarked on a journey along the RER, the express subway which leads through the Paris suburbs. Getting off the train at each stop, he and Frantz present a picture of daily life in France which tourists seldom see: a world where names don't make sense, where immigrants from Burkino Faso live in run-down tower-blocks called Debussy on the avenue Karl Marx, their children dodging the police between the lycee Jules Valles and the Yuri Gagarin youth-club; a world where there are still memories of the Commune, the Popular Front or the camp at Drancy from where French officials sent a hundred thousand Jews to Auschwitz; a world where no one is a racist, but National Front posters are everywhere. Maspero's aim is to put this world back on the map. |
Contents
Plaine de France | 1 |
Theres nothing to see Seminar on a motorway The Gaul | 17 |
the edifying story of a | 46 |
The calm of SevranBeaudottes A station with a bad | 65 |
Rules of conduct for walks in the suburbs The transVillepinte | 87 |
Petite Couronne | 109 |
AulnayAubervilliers The RER inspectors have had enough | 135 |
Akim at the Jean Bart The La Courneuve 4000 | 154 |
The Plaine SaintDenis and the Roman campaign Waiting for | 206 |
Hurepoix | 213 |
The fine ladies of rue Hodan Ode to the French dog Splendour | 239 |
Postface 1993 | 261 |
Translators notes | 269 |
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Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona Donald McNeill No preview available - 1999 |
Unsettling Cities: Movement/settlement John Allen,Doreen B. Massey,Michael Pryke No preview available - 1999 |