ABSTRACT
It takes a long time before old aristocratic families, ancient urban patricians, abandon the streets that had been their for as long as they could remember, despite the increasing solitude surrounding them and the development of new opulent areas elsewhere. (...) But nor are the poor easily displaced without resistance, offensive returns, and even when they give in, they leave behind them a part of themselves (...). It is odd to watch it all reappear, even after an interval in which nothing seemed to remain of the past; in districts totally transformed where they no longer seemed to have a place, emerge gradually the pleasure quarters, the small theatres, shops and dealers and obscure places of exchange, etc.
