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the Rue-- as the Faubourg du Temple on the
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edge of Paris, and this is 1837.
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But here is your classic sort of image of urban poverty,
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urban squalor, the kind of grey images of a street that
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no longer exists because of Haussmann's rebuilding.
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This is behind the Pantheon, that is just sort of above
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the Latin Quarter,
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and you see this ditch running right down the street.
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It carried sewage.
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There were already sewers in Paris,
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but it was terribly unhealthy--and
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you're thinking, "Oh, why?"--he says,