A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and it’s usually just big enough to fit a bed and a table. It’s affordable housing in a city where finding housing is nearly impossible. Reporter Jeanne Boëzec tells about the history of the chambre de bonne apartments, and how while cute, they are also cramped and can be unpleasant spaces for people who have to live there, a living embodiment of the gap between the rich in Paris and everyone else.
Chambre de Bonne
The Power Broker #02: Jamelle Bouie
570- The White Castle System of Eating Houses
569- Between the Blocks
568- Don't Forget to Remember
Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is
567- The Double Kick
The Power Broker #01: Robert Caro
566- Imitation Nation
565- Mini-Stories: Volume 18
470- Another Visit from the Three Santas of Slovenia
564- Mini-Stories: Volume 17
563- Empire of the Sum
562- Breaking Down The Power Broker (with Conan O'Brien)
344- The Known Unknown [rebroadcast]
561- Long Strange Tape
560- Home on the Range
559- The Six-Week Cure
558- The Fever Tree Hunt
557- Model Village
328- Devolutionary Redesign
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Short Wave
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Radiolab
A Tale of Two Cities
Anne of Green Gables
Planet Money
The Indicator from Planet Money