Courbevoie

Uh, but, but the association between, between working-class people on the edge of, uh, on the margins of the big city, uh, and radical politics is terribly important in the twenties and thirties and even much later than that.

Um, and this is a, a, a town called Courbevoie, which is north of Paris, and they all have streets called something like the Rue Maurice Thorez, who was a mining-- a miner who was a leader, a leader of the Communist Party, uh, following the dictates of Moscow, alas, in the nineteen, um, uh, in the nineteen, uh, uh, thirties.

Many of them still have an Avenue Jean Jaurès, uh, for obvious reasons, reasons.

But so-- but this-- it's just the growth of all of, of the, of these industrial suburbs that is one of the important, uh, sort of concomitants of, uh, of large-scale industrialization and the identification of the urban periphery with industrial work.

That's not the case in Bobigny.

That's not the place in Courbevoie and places like that, or in Vénissieux outside o- o- of Lyon.

There, when the police are there, they're not the same guys.

And when they're there, they're the ones saying, you know, "Your papers, your papers, your papers." Or they don't go at all, and they don't protect the other people.