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The garbage, she is piling up everywhere as sanitation workers join the nationwide protest against the retirement reform.

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Mar 13, 2023
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Sometimes you should be thankful for things that you didn’t even know you should be thankful for until some big news event comes along and makes you realize, “Hey, I sure am thankful!”

Take, for instance, the life of Eugène René Poubelle. Next month, France likely won’t celebrate the 192nd birthday of the man who had a profound impac…

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