Abstract
This chapter recounts the murder of the Tokars in Sainte Marguerite that provides a remarkable window into the social dynamics of apartment life in Paris. It offers a glimpse of the social world of working women and a sense of the female community that was built in the dark hallways, crowded courtyards, and hidden recesses of the Parisian apartment building. It also traces marital disputes, family frays, and neighborly brawls involving immigrant wives and mothers that blend with the everyday history of the neighborhood and its predominantly French-born inhabitants. The chapter describes the working-class culture of want and privation that thrived in the diseased and dilapidated, close and crowded apartment buildings of the 11th arrondissement. It highlights material conditions of everyday life that brought foreign wives and mothers into daily contact with their French neighbors and local community.
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