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This picture taken on August 28, 2019 shows a giant banner depicting the two brothers Ademos and N.O.S (Tarik and Nabil Andrieu) of the French rap group PNL (Peace N' Loves), set up on a building where the two artists spent a part of their adolescence, in the Youri Gagarine quarter in Ivry-sur-Seine on the outskirts of the French capital Paris. Some see it as “the end of a world”, others “a page that turns”: the destruction of the emblematic workers' quarter Gagarine, at the gates of Paris, emblem of the red suburbs, arouses the nostalgia and apprehension of residents who attend the entrance of their city in the era of Greater Paris. Inaugurated in 1963 in the presence of Russian space pioneer Yuri Gagarin – just two years after he became the first person in space – the “Cite Gagarine” underscored the Communist Party's appeal in much of postwar France. (Photo by Lionel Bonaventure/AFP Photo)
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