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in the tradition of Jean Jaurès.
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Léon Blum, who was born on the Rue Saint-Dennis,
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in Paris--there's still a plaque there-- was an intellectual.
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He was a literary critic, he was a writer.
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He had written a pamphlet called "On Marriage"
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Which was considered scandalous before World War One
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in which he said it was okay not to marry
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but simply be with somebody and all of that,
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for a long period of time; it was a recognition of the fact
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that in many places people weren't married,
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simply lived together,
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and particularly in large cities and particularly in Paris.