For those that have walked about the Belleville neighborhood in Paris, you know it to be something of a varied and colorful neighborhood. It lacks that grand “Parisian” quality that so many lend to the French capital and is much more working class and full of recent immigrants. Some streets are just one discount Chinese shop upon another. Others are in a state of quasi hipster gentrification which essentially means that trendy restaurants with raw wood interiors are being put in to businesses that were once actually useful to the […]

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