… to stop such sordid doings. This social place of attraction supposed to amaze and amuse the crowd became unexpectedly a space of criminality and corruption attracting numerous pickpockets. Despite these mass crimes which occurred at the … Singleton, ed. Manushag N. Powell (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2019), p. 99. 12 . Henri Lefevbre, The Production of Space, transl. Donald Nicholson-Smith (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991), p. 198. The Macabre Sociability of the Crowd During the …