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of the influence of the book,
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even in the way that the first psychologists
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or the first sociologists,
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the first anthropologists described crowd behavior.
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There was a guy called Gustav Le Bon,
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l-e b-o-n, who wrote a book called The Crowd,
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and because France was the France of revolution and strikes,
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Decazeville and these other places,
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these other scenes that you know about from Germinal.
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He was interested in the way that crowds behaved,
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and he described them in ways
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that reflected three of the kind of