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Supposons la Bastille prise en d'autres temps, cinquante ans, vingt ans plus tôt : elle n'eût été qu'une émeute du désespoir, de la colère ou de la peur. En juillet 1789, le soulèvement d'un faubourg de Paris contre une prison mal gardée provoque la chute d'un régime séculaire : le fait divers acquiert immédiatement le caractère et la force d'un symbole et se hisse à la hauteur d'un événement dont le monde retentit. Remontant à la mort de Louis XIV, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret nous fait saisir la crise d'identité qui frappe la société française pendant tout le XVIIIe siècle. Un siècle de réflexions, de contestations, d'audaces intellectuelles et de défis contre des institutions qui n'apparaissent bientôt plus que comme des obstacles à l'épanouissement d'un organisme en pleine croissance. Suivant pas à pas cette crise qui corrode le régime, jusqu'à l'insurrection qui marque un point d'orgue dans cette irrésistible poussée, l'auteur montre combien la Prise de la Bastille résume toute la Révolution française dont elle fut en quelque sorte la répétition générale.
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Epicentre of the Revolution of 1789, erstwhile bastion of the skilled working-class and centre of radical agitation, along with Pigalle and Montmartre a focus for popular and raffish night-life in the early twentieth century, the Bastille area of Eastern Paris (also known as the Faubourg Saint-Antoine) is now an ethnically and socially mixed quartier which still bears the traces of its previous avatars. In a fascinating tour, Keith Reader charts the history and cultural geography of this unique area of Paris, from the fortress and prison that gave the area its name to the building of the largest and costliest opera house in the world.
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San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News.Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars, introducing us to Arnulfo García, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News, after a twenty-year shutdown, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform.
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