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His father was a communard
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who was condemned to death, somebody who'd fought in the commune.
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So, this guy is born in Spain.
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His father contracted mercury poisoning in Spain,
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and comes back to France after the amnesty and dies.
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He has an older brother and a younger brother.
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What he does is, on a day in 1894,
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he sets out with a bomb and he walks in the fancy boulevards that,
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for him, represent all of the class differences
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between wealthy and poor people, center versus periphery and all of that.
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He goes down to the Cafe Terminus, which is on your right.
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It's those awnings there near the Gare Saint-Lazare.