Wednesday, January 07, 2009

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Street names, making sense of Paris

Monday 01 September 2008

Whether referring to an occupation, a powerful figure or a famous battle scene, Paris street names tell the history of France and its capital. Heroic, polemical or even prosaic, they constitute a subjective memory written on the city's walls.

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