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here and there in the Latin Quarter, but above all in Montmartre
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and in these northern industrial regions, and beyond in suburbs.
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Now, the 1880s and '90s will,
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as you may already know,
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will be remembered as a time of scandal
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the sleazy Panama Canal scandal and lots of other ones;
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the president's son-in-law selling the Legion d'Honneur, et cetera.
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And the memory of the Paris Commune
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loomed large for anarchists.
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More than 25,000 people had been gunned down,
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and now from the heights of Montmartre, and from Belleville,
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another peripheral neighborhood, anarchists looked down