In today’s episode, we travel to a town east of Paris named Montreuil. Montreuilis to Paris what Oakland is to San Francisco, a vibrant multicultural youngthe dynamic and creative suburb of Paris.Montreuil is also well-known for its left-wing politics, with a rate close to 26% ofimmigrants, the city has been led by a succession of Mayor affiliated with theFrench communist but also the Green party. The result is an incredible meltingpot of culture, diverse languages, and deep artistic cultures that goes back to theearly century with the movie industry.
In today’s episode, we travel to one of the Parisian neighborhoods named Montreuil to talk with Rebecca Dry, founder of the media platform Love Montreuil.Montreuil is to Paris what Oakland is to San Francisco, a vibrant multicultural young dynamic and creative suburb of Paris. (This interview has been edited for the purpose of this blog post)
One of the most secrets of Parisian neighborhoods, Montreuil is well-known for its left-wing politics and its diverse immigrants population.The city has been led by a succession of Mayors affiliated with the French communist but also the Green party.
We talked to Rebecca Dry about:
“So it's almost like a hidden jewel and lots more people from Paris are coming to live here now, which is good. They wouldn't have touched it 10 years ago and now it's kind of trendy to live here, you know, so they call it the Brooklyn of Paris…and it tends to be where people maybe dare to be a bit different.
It is an amazing place there's nowhere like it in France. There's nowhere like it here. 1,500 artists live here. There's something like eight to 900 artists workshops. There's tens of fab labs. There is a punk and rock music culture but also a gypsy culture.
Culture in Montreuil is everywhere and along with culture, there is the environment with many public vegetable gardens and the famous ‘Mur de pêche’, which means the wall of peach.
People from Montreuil are different. They are rebellious.
I thought to myself, there isn't a website about this town that I myself would love to read and fall upon. You know, I would love to know about what's going on in this town. So there was nothing. I thought, why don't I create one? So I decided to do it and I decided to create it myself from scratch, like the website, everything, the photos, everything, the content, with a view to valorizing and valorizing my town and also the people who make it move and shake.
If we loose diversity, that wouldn't be Montreuil anymore.