henri paul royer's view from the butte gave a human face to montmartre's grinding poverty.n casas noted the ramshackle poverty of back streets lying in the imposing shadow of the church of sacre-coeur. built with government financial assistance as penance for the sins of a defeated nation, sacre-coeur was also a call to arms for the moral regeneration of a france led by church and state. it was very quickly interpreted by montmartre's media, especially the radical media, as an imposition of the third republic's power on montmartre. and that served as the focus to all the anti-militarists, anti-clericalists and anti-capitalists, who transformed it into a symbol of oppression by the establishment-- an attempt to dominate the anti-establishment elements of montmartre. (narrator) in an attempt to defuse the situion, the government loosened the restrictions imposed on the popular press after the suppression of the commune. in 1881, for the first time, you could publish journals with illustrations that did not have to be checked by the censor every day. simultaneously with this w

henri paul royer's view from the butte gave a human face to montmartre's grinding poverty.n casas noted the ramshackle poverty of back streets lying in the imposing shadow of the church of sacre-coeur. built with government financial assistance as penance for the sins of a defeated nation, sacre-coeur was also a call to arms for the moral regeneration of a france led by church and state. it was very quickly interpreted by montmartre's media, especially the radical media, as an imposition of the third republic's power on montmartre. and that served as the focus to all the anti-militarists, anti-clericalists and anti-capitalists, who transformed it into a symbol of oppression by the establishment-- an attempt to dominate the anti-establishment elements of montmartre. (narrator) in an attempt to defuse the situation, the government loosened the restrictions imposed on the popular press after the suppression of the commune. in 1881, for the first time, you could publish journals with illustrations that did not have to be checked by the censor every day. simultaneously with this