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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.
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He hid it in his clothing along with a loaded pistol and a knife,
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and he headed toward the elegant boulevards
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near the Paris Opera,
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which had been completed twenty years earlier.
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He wanted to throw the bomb and kill as many people as possible.