Money & Markets
As Paris expands, what will become of its notorious suburbs?“All the bad things we say about Paris are true,” the French publisher and writer Eric Hazan wrote in his book, Paris sous tension (Paris Under Stress, La Fabrique Éditions, 2011). “That the preppy streets of the center look like the duty free area of an international airport, that the apartheid between rich and poor is at its severest, that the slice of working-class areas in the north and the east shrinks everyday,” It’s a dark overview of the French capital, but one many French people will find apt.