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					constant theme--it only grows by 72,000 
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					between 1931 and 1936; 
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					and, as I said before, two-thirds of the 
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					départements in France had a smaller population in 1939 
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					than they did in 1851. 
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					France has relatively few people under the age, under 
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					twenty years of age; only about thirty-one percent, 
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					which is an extremely low 
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					percentage compared to countries that have 
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					really a high rate of population growth, 
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					and relatively more people who were elderly. 
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					And beginning in 1935,