Village in the Vaucluse
by Laurence William Wylie · first published 1957
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Life in a French town, where the author and his family spent a year.
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…it says. Back in the 1960s, the Communists used to get so many votes in French elections that some people in the US worried the country would align with Russia. But as Laurence Wylie pointed out in Village in the Vaucluse (great book btw), most of the voters didn't actually agree with the Communists' policies. They were just voting for them because they worried that the dominant party was getting too powerful. Really…
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