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Well there was--the political success, as well as the sanitary
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--was a success but one that needs to be qualified.
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There was an enormous resentment among the working people of Paris
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at Haussmann's project,
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and there was an enormous history from that time
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down to nearly our own of hostility of the suburbs.
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Paris becomes, not by chance,
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surrounded by a red belt
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of concluding hostility to the regime,
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and this exploded in the spring of 1871
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in the Paris Commune that brought down the regime
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and led to the establishment of a republic.