Belleville
Rebel working-class quarter of immigrants, street art, and the Commune's last stand.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Belleville in Paris starts at a plaque on the rue de Belleville marking Edith Piaf's birthplace in 1915, and the doubt over whether she was actually born there or in a nearby hospital. It follows the neighborhood's waves of Jewish, Algerian, and Chinese immigrants, and the day in May 1871 when Commune fighters held the uprising's last barricades here. You'll also hear about the Mur des Federes, a short walk away in Pere-Lachaise.
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