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--it doesn't matter--but where it's just full of places to drink.
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Or chambrays, a chambray
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is a form of a place of male sociability;
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women did not go there usually.
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It was sort of a club where you drank
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essentially tax free booze on the sly, and it's more,
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it's identified particularly with a department called the Var,
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v-a-r, which is-- you don't have to remember,
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obviously, that--but which is where Toulon is and Saint-Tropez.
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And they were important because in the Second Republic,
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that is 1848 to 1851, this is one of the places
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where politics sort of came to very ordinary people.