The Blasted Heath

You can read my biography of the anarchist painter Maximilien Luce in the pages of Organise! and on www.libcom.org . Here's a painting by him of the tanneries on the River Bievre in Paris.

http://www.myartprints.co.uk/a/luce-maximilien/le_s_tanneries_bievre.html

 Like its analogous counterpart the Fleet in London, the Bievre was turned into a foul flow of effluent and like the Fleet is is completely buried underground. like the Fleet, promises were made to uncover some stretches of it within the city, promises never kept because of course it was "too expensive". Sure plenty to spend on arms and foreign wars but....
More to follow on the Bievre.

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