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important in the '20s and '30s, and even much later than that.
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And this is a town called Corbevoie,
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which is north of Paris, and they
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all have streets called something
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like the Rue Maurice Thorez,
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who was a miner who was a leader of the Communist Party,
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following the dictates of Moscow, alas, in the 1930s.
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Many of them still have an Avenue Jean Jaurs, for
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obvious reasons.
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But it's this growth of all of these industrial suburbs that is one of
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the important sort of concomitants of large-scale industrialization,
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and the identification of the urban periphery with industrial work.