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purposes, still had a fiscal purpose which was to provide a means of
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collecting taxes on what you brought into town.
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And this wall, or this taxing apparatus,
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is called in French the octroi, o-c-t-r-o-i.
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And I love these little buildings.
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You can see some near Nation, Place de la Nation, and other--
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in Thar-cor, in the Loire, there's a fantastic one,
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you see them all over the place, and they're just beautiful.
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Sometimes people live in them.
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But this lasts, this isn't something that
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disappeared in 1850 or 1900,
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it lasts till World War II.