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    A crowd gathered to watch the demolition of the Cité Gagarine housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, France. The project was once a symbol of the success of the French Communist Party. As the demolition crane began taking the building down brick by brick, one resident of 32 years wiped her eyes, insisting it was the sun that caused it while her husband rolled his eyes. The demolition signaled the end of an era for the housing project that represented the future but is now a tale of France's past.

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    A crowd gathered to watch the demolition of the Cité Gagarine housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine, France. The project was once a symbol of the success of the French Communist Party. As the demolition crane began taking the building down brick by brick, one resident of 32 years wiped her eyes, insisting it was the sun that caused it while her husband rolled his eyes. The demolition signaled the end of an era for the housing project that represented the future but is now a tale of France's past.

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    French Housing
    Project, Once a Symbol
    of the Future, Is Now a
    Tale of the Past
    By Constant Méheut and Norimitsu Onishi

    Sept. 11, 2019,


    11:39 a.m. ET
    18

    IVRY-SUR-SEINE, France —
    A crowd gathered late last month to watch
    Appropriately enough, it started
    the demolition of Cité Gagarine, a housing
    with
    projectathat
    countdown — “Trois,
    once symbolized deux,
    the success of
    the
    un,French
    zéro!”Communist
    — as theParty.
    onlookers on
    Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times
    the outskirts of Paris looked into
    the sky.

    The liftoff on a recent Saturday


    was surprisingly sluggish, as if the
    machine rose from the earth only
    reluctantly. But after gathering
    momentum, the demolition crane
    grabbed a chunk of the roof and
    brought down the first red bricks
    of “Cité Gagarine,” the huge
    housing project that once
    symbolized the success of the
    French Communist Party, and
    whose demise now conjured
    something else.

    Christine Deliège, who lived there


    for 32 years, took off her
    sunglasses and touched the
    corners of her eyes, insisting it
    was only the sun. Her husband,
    Joel, rolled his eyes.

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