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the Battle of the Marne, which takes place basically between
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Lagny, which is a town you can't see here,
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and Champagne, basically in
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Chalons-en-Champagne, the Battle of the Marne.
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And everybody knows this as a famous story, and there's of course a metro
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stop named after him, inevitably, but the commander of the
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military defense of the Paris Region is a guy called Gallieni,
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g-a-l-l-i-e-n-i, and he conscripts the taxis of
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Paris.
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And, so, the Parisian taxis literally carry soldiers out to
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fight in the Battle of the Marne, which can be clearly heard, to
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repeat myself, in Paris; that there was a sense of impending