The Charonne neighborhood centers on a stone bell tower rising above the low roofs of the rue de Bagnolet. This structure served as the parish church for a rural village that supplied wine to the city of Paris for centuries. In eighteen seventy-one, the church cellar provided a hiding place for members of the Paris Commune who fought in the nearby streets. Bullet holes remain etched into the exterior stone, marking the skirmishes that defined the final days of that short-lived revolutionary government.
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