Abstract (EN)

Members of the elite athletic club Lagardère Paris Racing and prostitutes frequent one another at the site of Pré-Catelan in the Bois de Boulogne, on the western edge of Paris. The tolerance that people with rights over the Pré-Catelan show toward the presence of prostitutes is curious given the distancing power the sociological literature attributes to residents of better neighborhoods. This article demonstrates that in the absence of a municipal context favoring the politicization of solicitation, “working” on ignoring prostitutes is an alternative to mobilization for Pré-Catelan rights-holders. This is because it is less vital for them to manage to monopolize their leisure space than it is to impose a homogeneous definition of it.