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that would view their own language
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as something antithetical to progress of the civilization
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that people thought was represented by the French language.
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So, the question of timing here,
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you could argue that for this area here,
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which was extremely backward, though I hate that word
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the Limousin,
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these departments here--you don't have to know the departments
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where I used to live in the Haute-Vienne
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--I don't have much affection for it actually--but
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that these areas, the timing is much earlier than 1880s,
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and they didn't have to wait for trains,