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And, of course, that square now contains probably
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the largest population of pickpockets
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this side of the Spanish
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steps as American tourists get off the metro
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there looking for American
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Express with their wallets about to be soon to disappear.
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But, and here you can look down and see--
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this is reversed but it doesn't
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make the slightest bit of difference-- you can see that's the
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Place Vend?me,
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the column of which was brought down
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in 1871 at Courbet's suggestion.