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And, so, they have to defend Paris.
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And, so, you've got all these cannons that you just saw before,
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and you've got--they still have their uniforms
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and they build these huge barricades.
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The first barricades, by the way,
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were built in Paris in the late sixteenth century,
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so there's a long tradition.
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And you could build barricades across smaller streets,
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but not across big boulevards,
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and that was part of the rebuilding of Paris in the 1850s and '60s,
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more about that in a minute and much more about that later,
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because it's fascinating; at least,