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try to find charity and ultimately to die.
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Child abandonment, infanticide and all the things that
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I mentioned before--disease, the cholera disease rips through
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Paris in 1832 and 1849, again in 1884.
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So, basically cities, large cities replenish themselves
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only through immigration, through much of the nineteenth century.
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And, so, what happens is you've got this sort of super,
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hyper overcrowding of the central districts as immigrants
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from the north of France, from Normandy,
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from the east of France, also seasonal migrants
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from the Limousine who finally
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settle Paris pour into these central districts