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the improvements in roads in the eighteenth
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and the first half of the nineteenth century,
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were more important than railroads were
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in achieving in many parts of France this kind of integration.
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And furthermore,
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if you look at the expansion of the French economy--
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and again the only--what we're thinking about is timing,
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don't worry about these details,
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just having you think about national identity--
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the French economy expanded rapidly
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in the 1820s and '30s and '40s,
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and again in the 1850s and '60s,