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If you go to the Naugatuck Valley and the sort of Rust Belt there--
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the United States urbanizes,
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the eastern United States urbanizes very rapidly.
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France, and we'll come back to this when I talk about cities,
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France does have large cities, above all Paris,
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but it is primarily an urbanization of very small places
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of what in French--and in English, the same word--
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you'd call bourgs, b-o-u-r-g-s,
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which are market towns essentially, so small towns.
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So, we're still dealing with a society
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in which production is overwhelmingly rural,
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but in which France is becoming a major kind of industrial producing--