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which is true in Catholic Brittany, in the northwest of the country.
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Most of the time there are not crosses.
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What they show primarily are two kinds of representations.
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The first is of a Gallic rooster, which again could be bought
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through a mail order catalog, or a soldier, the poilu.
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The British liked to see their soldiers shaved.
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For the French, the idea of a soldier
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should be somebody who's a hairy one, a poilu,
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somebody who never shaved.
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Having a beard is being masculine,
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being a tough guy,
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being a soldier who won the war.