The Belly of Paris

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Description: The names of the thirty-seven characters in Emile Zola's text- 'Le Ventre de Paris' (The Belly of Paris) were reproduced and then each name card surface treated with dyes.  These cards were then placed around the area of Les Halles in Paris, where the story itself was located.     


Zola, E. (2007) The Belly of Paris, New York: Oxford University Press.

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