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But this is a big blow to the rural economy
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and lots of people abandon their fields,
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or they're converted to other things.
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But wine bounces back and takes its place again
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as one of the real dynamic forces in modern French life.
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But what's incredible is that the number of cafes
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continues to expand exponentially.
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And this suggests-- an obvious point is that people
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drank more than just wine-- more about that in a minute.
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Let's give you some suggestions, some ideas, some figures.
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1790, Paris only had 4,000 cabarets, 4,000 cabarets in a town
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then of about 600,000 people, more or less.