The atmosphere of this bourgeois quarter of Paris was so profoundly altered by a small group of intellectuals, the so-called existentialists, that it acquired international fame and even became a tourist attraction.
Constant
There was a neighborhood where the negative held court.
Guy Debord
It is wonderful to note that disturbances originating in a lowly and ephemeral little neighborhood have ended up shaking the entire world order.
Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
It was the external setting of our story, where a few people put into practice a systematic questioning of all the works and diversions of a society, a total critique of its notion of happiness.
Guy Debord, Sur le passage de quelques personnes à travers une assez courte unité de temps