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Heh. The Riviera ends at Mourillon. Sanary, while nice, is in the industrial "armpit" part. And La Seyne, where I lived, is definitely prole, complete with a good Communist for mayor, the late Maurice Paul.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
by redstar on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 09:15:09 PM EST
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I have had some very good times in those "armpits."

Five years ago I was changing trains in Toulon, and the auvergnat waiter in the station bar noticed my guitar case. What do you play?

One thing led to another, and all of a sudden les auvergnats started coming out of the woodwork! Exiles in Provence, with an informal daily get-together at the station? or maybe it was just a coincidence.

Anyway, somebody taught me the chords for...

"Loin des bruits de la ville,
j'irai jusqu'en Auvergne
Sur les collines couvertes de bruyère..."

I never had as much fun in St. Tropez, much less Nice!
 

Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.

by FPS Doug on Fri Jan 18th, 2008 at 10:11:08 PM EST
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It's more of a "used to" be the industrial armpit :



Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Jan 19th, 2008 at 09:13:21 AM EST
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Heh.

I'll give it maybe another decade. Waterfront property isn't getting created on the littroal of the medtierranean every day you know, so it is saying something that prime waterfront property will have taken so long to do anything with, and the town suffered for it.

La Seyne is finally redeveloping the shipyards - that took twenty years. The amount of right-wing corruption, Arreckx, Trucy, Scaglia, Valenti, Fargette, most of whom ended up in jail, boggles the mind.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Sun Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:53:55 AM EST
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