particularly in the Red Belt, those suburbs around Paris,

特别是在赤化区那些巴黎的郊区
had the prestige that long predated

这种影响在很早便深入人心
the heroic role of communist resistance in World War Two.

早于二战时英雄般的共产主义抵抗力量
But they considered Léon Blum

他们认为雷昂·布朗姆
and the Socialist Party to be anathema

和社会党是令人厌恶的
--for one thing, Blum was a bourgeois himself--

就因为一件事布朗姆是个资本家
and the Socialist Party was willing to compromise with other parties,

而且社会党愿意和其他党派和解
was a reformist party

社会党是个改良主义党派
in the tradition of Jean Jaurès.

承袭了让·饶勒斯的传统
Léon Blum, who was born on the Rue Saint-Dennis,

雷昂·布朗姆出生于巴黎圣丹尼斯街
in Paris--there's still a plaque there-- was an intellectual.

现在还有那块路牌他是个知识分子
He was a literary critic, he was a writer.

文学评论还是个作家