A Massacre in the Métro Remembered

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TWO DAYS AGO, on Friday 8^th February 2013, I found myself in Charonne station on Line 9 of the Paris Métro. At first sight, it’s just an ordinary Métro station with nothing in particular to commend it. But, as I walked into the station, passed through the ticket barrier and waited for my train on the platform, I couldn’t help thinking about the terrible event that took place here on 8^th February, 1962, 51 years ago to the day.

Waiting and thinking at Charonne station:

On that day in 1962, the Paris police were responsible for the the massacre of nine people in the stairwell of Charonne station, an event that is remembered each year by a short ceremony and the laying of wreaths on the spot where the massacre took place. To get to my platform, I walked into the same stairwell and stopped to look at…

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Intimate Immensity,
in The Poetics of Space,
trans. Maria Jolas (Boston: Beacon, 1994), 183-84.

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