
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


It should have just been a regular Saturday night dancing to rock music and having a good time at the relatively new dance hall outside of Saint-Laurent, France. But in the early morning hours of November 1st, 1970, what was likely one dropped match or cigarette turned the Club Cinq-Sept into an oven.
Videos:
Pierre Montillo interview
AP News clips of the fire
Articles and books:
The worst thing is the sound of silence": 50 years after the "5-7" tragedy, the memory and the grief remain intact.
Youth to Burn: Guy Debord on the fire at Saint-Laurent-du-Pont
Virtual Globetrotting: Diagram of the layout of the Club Cinq-Sept
France: An Unusual Silence
1970: Nightclub inferno 'wipes out generation'
By Jennifer Matarese4
778778 ratings
It should have just been a regular Saturday night dancing to rock music and having a good time at the relatively new dance hall outside of Saint-Laurent, France. But in the early morning hours of November 1st, 1970, what was likely one dropped match or cigarette turned the Club Cinq-Sept into an oven.
Videos:
Pierre Montillo interview
AP News clips of the fire
Articles and books:
The worst thing is the sound of silence": 50 years after the "5-7" tragedy, the memory and the grief remain intact.
Youth to Burn: Guy Debord on the fire at Saint-Laurent-du-Pont
Virtual Globetrotting: Diagram of the layout of the Club Cinq-Sept
France: An Unusual Silence
1970: Nightclub inferno 'wipes out generation'

17,325 Listeners

37,499 Listeners

3,146 Listeners

13,810 Listeners

1,878 Listeners

6,992 Listeners

9,825 Listeners

4,063 Listeners

1,010 Listeners

8,205 Listeners

7,792 Listeners

493 Listeners

220 Listeners

744 Listeners

336 Listeners