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and families going out, along the Marne,
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which in the 1920s and '30s, outside of Paris,
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was a real hot place to go--a guinguette was very rural.
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A bouchon, the word in French bouchon means a cork;
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it also means a traffic jam,
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as a cork in a bottle is a traffic jam,
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nobody can get through because it's bouchonne,
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or a wine can be bouchonne, too.
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But, anyway, a bouchon is a rural drinking place,
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and when I think of bouchon I think of a place
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where you go with your friends and maybe play a little boule,
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along side of that, and it's sort of identity with leisure