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everybody knew people who died in the war.
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It was the defining experience of the twentieth century,
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and the violence of the war continues into the 1920s and '30s.
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So, you can see the whole period till 1945
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is an even more horrible thirty
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years war than that of the seventeenth century.
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There are 35,000,36,000 communes in France,
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that is administrative units.
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Paris is a commune, but so is a village of twelve people,
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is a commune--36,000. In World War One,
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only twelve didn't have somebody killed.
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France in the 1920s was a country of widows dressed in black,