Paris, July 3, 22026. By Socrates George Kazolias

Le Temps de Cerises celebrates its 50th Birthday.

In 1976, a group of Anarcho – Syndicalists, with visions of the May-68 revolt still dancing in their head, decided they would take over a run down, working-class, area in the 13th Arrondissement of Paris: La Butte aux Cailles. They opened a series of bars, each named after a stanza from the 1848 Revolution theme song: Le Temps des Cerises, and a restaurant by the same name.