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12th Arrondissement

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Ozanam’s visits to those in poverty made him painfully aware of the large number of people leading a life of degradation. He wrote from his experience in the 12th Arrondissement: Half of this district… is composed of narrow, crooked streets, where the sun never penetrates, where a carriage could not venture without risk, and where a man in a coat never passes without making a sensation, and attracting to the doorsteps groups of naked children and women in rags. On either side of a filthy sewer rise houses five stories high, many of which shelter fifty families.

Source: Antoine Frédéric Ozanam by Raymond L. Sickinger, University of Notre Dame Press

A ragpicker, Avenue des Gobelins, Paris, 19th century

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Red = Vincent de Paul, Blue = Frederic Ozanam

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