Above: Adjudicating outcome of an afternoon boules game along the Ourcq Canal.
Paris had to be more than a manicured museum preserved for the affluent beneath the Eiffel Tower and the Pantheon’s dome.”
“A City Reinvented: Paris Is Now Greater Paris,” Roger Cohen, New York Times, August 31, 2025
When we returned this past spring, our prior trip to Paris had been forty years earlier. Obviously, things have changed. We found ourselves afoot exploring areas of the city regarded as neither appealing nor safe for boulevardiers back then, areas such as an abandoned railroad line that runs across the 12th Arrondissement from the Bastille to the Bois de Boulogne.
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