tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post8913884168997857002..comments2024-03-28T08:30:15.957+01:00Comments on Invisible Paris: The Politics of Place NamesAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06453626318828119830noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-42179106994710544252014-07-03T09:04:33.319+02:002014-07-03T09:04:33.319+02:00Anthony - the link should be working fine now. You...Anthony - the link should be working fine now. You're right, the 'new' building is spectacular - at once futuristic and curiously dated!Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06453626318828119830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-41637594073576461682014-07-03T02:47:09.344+02:002014-07-03T02:47:09.344+02:00Adam, your link to the post on the present Communi...Adam, your link to the post on the present Communist Party HQ isn't working. BTW, I visited that building during my trip to Paris last year. The auditorium there (as you certainly know) is amazing. Reminded me of a 60's James Bond film set. : )Anthony Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02928488364484462927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-21983321409111643972014-07-03T02:00:16.462+02:002014-07-03T02:00:16.462+02:00Since writing my earlier comment, I have remembere...Since writing my earlier comment, I have remembered that the name Kossuth touches my own family history tangentially. My great-great grandfather, Jean (or Johannes, or John) Sieber, who was born in Zurich, studied in Paris at the Ecole Polytechnique and at the Gobelins tapestry factory (he specialized in the chemistry of dyeing) and went to work in Vienna in 1848. There, he inadvertently got Philippahttp://parisianfields.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-86520882473247954382014-07-02T23:54:26.931+02:002014-07-02T23:54:26.931+02:00Nice Page and update. i like blogwalkingNice Page and update. i like blogwalkingobat ace maxshttp://goo.gl/gu34Ptnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-46936557247617026622014-07-02T23:43:46.390+02:002014-07-02T23:43:46.390+02:00An excellent question Philippa - and I apologise f...An excellent question Philippa - and I apologise for not attempting an answer in the post.<br /><br />I think above all the problem was the enforced change of address. For Communist militants, the HQ was known as 'le 44', so this decision took away a part of its identity. During the Hungarian uprising, Kossuth - a leader of a previous revolution in Hungary and a man who fought to Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06453626318828119830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-54709356073084439822014-07-02T18:47:43.194+02:002014-07-02T18:47:43.194+02:00This demonstrates my ignorance of Hungarian histor...This demonstrates my ignorance of Hungarian history, but what was it about the name of Kossuth that was so repellant to the Communists?Philippahttp://parisianfields.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7725154806633928919.post-74933106004669183562014-07-02T18:37:06.478+02:002014-07-02T18:37:06.478+02:00excellent as usual.
aleks, torontoexcellent as usual.<br />aleks, torontoaleksandarhttp://urbansquares.comnoreply@blogger.com