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Okay, today I want to do two things.
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I'm going to talk about the centralization of the French State
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and the question of why Paris--and that's kind of fun to talk about-
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and the role of Paris in centralization,
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and the particular role of Paris in French economic,
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political, social and cultural life.
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And, then, in the last twenty minutes
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I'll talk about why this sort of strange man,