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And,for example,when you go to any town or any village
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in France you will see what they call Mission Crosses.
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You'll see these crosses that are stone crosses.
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The first ones were put up during the counter-reformation,
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or the Catholic reformation,in the seventeenth century,
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to try to win back areas that had become Protestant,
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that is,around Lyon.You find some that are put up,
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not surprisingly,after 1815,
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and the others are in the 1860s or the 1870s,
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and then never again.
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And these are big crosses that are put out,
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usually outside the villages.