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Claire Berlinski @ClaireBerlinski
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This may take me a while. I've been armchair-generalling this all week I was really confused, because as all students of Parisian architecture know, Haussmann designed those the avenues *specifically* so that they'd be riot-proof. city-journal.org/html/architect…
I just couldn't figure out how a modern police force, with obvious superiority in men, training, and arms, could be run over by a bunch of rioters, especially since everyone knew they would be violent: They weren't exactly making a secret of this.
Okay, here's the map. The key words are cognates: "scènes de pillage" means what it sounds like, "interpellé means “arrested,” "affrontement" means “attack,” "blessé" means “wounded,” and "incendie" means “fire.” "Grands magasins" are “big stores.”
Très nombreux pillages means “a whole lot of pillaging.” The Bourse is the stock market. Can everyone see the details? Remember, this is last week--today they showed they learned from the lesson and it wasn't anywhere near as bad.
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