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as you shall see later in the course, for the Belle époque.
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Department stores welcomed clients with dazzling electric lights
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and arranged shop windows inspiring Zola to call them '
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the cathedrals of modernity."
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The aisles of the department stores were,
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as has been argued, a continuation of the
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great boulevards themselves.
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In contrast, the poor workers lived along the narrow grey streets
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of the quartiers populaires
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this is not a quartier populaire,
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this is the Terminus
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the plebeian neighborhoods of eastern Paris,