The World Cup Celebration in Place De Le Concorde

The world cup celebration in the streets was no less an expression of patriotic nationalism than the july fourteenth parade. We were swept down river into rue de rivoli, where this watershed of national emotion drained into this arterial road. And we all marched towards place de la concorde. There was yelling and screaming and high fiving and hugging and kissing. It was a delirious whirlwind. Nobody ever stopped moving. Nothing ever stopped swirling. People clung to the side of buildings and hung out of windows and swung from lamp posts. The mobs coursing through central paris in the fall and winter of 20 18 were just as spontaneous and leaderless as the whirlcup