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called Fernand Pelloutier there,
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and they bore his mark.
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Pelloutier was himself bourgeois, ironically.
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He was born in 1868.
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He died in 1901, so he didn't live very long.
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He was a son of a civil servant from a clerical
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and legitimist, that is, monarchist family,
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educated in a church school.
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He was kicked out of his church school for writing an anti-clerical novel.
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He failed his baccalauréat, his bac,
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that is the big exam that you take after lycée, after high school.
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And it used to be only thirty-five percent of the people passed,