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And the other books are, in their own way,
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sort of classics that you'll enjoy.
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Now, many of you, if you've had French anything,
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have read Germinal, and if you haven't read Germinal,
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now is your chance to read it.
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Zola was one of the first great naturalist writers
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and he would go up to the nord, to the Anzin,
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to the mines of Anzin, up here in the north of France,
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and he would go down in the mines and see how people worked.
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He would see how fifteen-year-old
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girls worked in the mine--Catherine,
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who grows up rather quickly in the mines.