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...This project will rip the soul out of Montmartre," says Michel Langlois, a butcher and third-generation Montmartrois who has organized a petition against the Green Village project. "This is another attempt by City Hall to make Paris into one, uniform city. We won't have...
...many residents of these neighborhoods question the motives behind such ventures. "These projects are entirely for the bobos," says Michel Langlois, the Montmartre butcher, referring to bourgeois-bohemians - a distinctive breed of middle-class Parisians who, in recent years, have moved to traditionally poorer areas of the city to take advantage of cheaper property. Besides Montmartre, favorite "bobo" haunts include the 10th Arrondissement where designer strollers navigate deftly around the tents that shelter the homeless along the St. Denis Canal. "Yes, people can roller-blade more easily now but there's little regard for the impact of these projects...
...many residents of these neighborhoods question the motives behind such ventures. "These projects are entirely for the bobos," says Michel Langlois, the Montmartre butcher, referring to bourgeois-bohemians - a distinctive breed of middle-class Parisians who, in recent years, have moved to traditionally poorer areas of the city to take advantage of cheaper property. Besides Montmartre, favorite "bobo" haunts include the 10th Arrondissement where designer strollers navigate deftly around the tents that shelter the homeless along the St. Denis Canal. "Yes, people can roller-blade more easily now but there's little regard for the impact of these projects...
...This project will rip the soul out of Montmartre," says Michel Langlois, a butcher and third-generation Montmartrois who has organized a petition against the Green Village project. "This is another attempt by City Hall to make Paris into one, uniform city. We won't have...
...billion photographs are snapped each week-blogged, harbored in albums or, just as inevitably, consigned to refuse bins at the sight of an unflattering haircut. It is these rustling forests of lost and discarded images that concern photo historian Michel Frizot and photography professor Cédric de Veigy. Their Photo Trouvée, recently published by Phaidon, brings together 285 anonymous, amateur snapshots, salvaged from flea markets and antique shops over the past 20 years. Behind every one is a delicious enigma: Who captured...