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That number included, as we'll see in a while, sadi Carnot, c-a-r-n-o-t,
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who was the president of France.
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So, I want to begin with a bomb.
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And I've had, because of this bomb, years and years afterward
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I've had the rather odd feeling
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of twice having eaten in the cafe restaurant
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that my book subject blew up,
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the Cafe Terminus
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and it is the turning point in the origins of modern terrorism.
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On February 12th, 1894,
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a pale, thin young man called émile Henry
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prepared a bomb in his room in Paris.