don't write that down or even try to spell it now

不用记笔记了你们也不会拼
there is this huge withdrawal from the countryside

大批农村人离开了农村
toward more urbanized departments,

到了城市化程度更高的省
and because the population has stopped growing basically by 1900,

1900年时人口已经停止增长了
if it wasn't for the arrival of people from Italy and other places,

如果不是意大利和西班牙等地的人
and from Spain, the French population wouldn't even reproduce itself,

来到法国法国人口甚至会下降
it wouldn't even stay constant.

都不会维持原来的水平
In much of France, and indeed

法国的很多地方
I would argue of 36,000 communes,

我会说在三万六千个镇里
let me say that perhaps in

大概有
ten or twelve thousand communes,

一万或一万二的镇
after World War II,

在二战后