Paris’s `Squalor Pit’ Gare du Nord Becomes French Decline Symbol
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On a recent afternoon at Paris’s Gare du Nord train station, a man leans against a lamppost with an empty wine bottle at his feet and spouts a jet of pink vomit over a parking bay for public bicycles.
Locals hurry by, avoiding looking at the man, while visitors stare in fascinated horror.