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| | TIME Europe Magazine: Reality Check -- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | In the shadow of the last blast furnace in Hayange, a declining French steel town near the border with Luxembourg and Germany, union and communist activists gathered in the local sports hall one recent night to plot their campaign against the proposed European Union constitution. |
 | | They had put up posters in the windows of the drab stucco building advocating a europe of peace, but as in thousands of similar meetings throughout France over the past few months the spirit was more of revolution. |
 | | It's a long way from the grit of Hayange to the gilt of the Elysée Palace in Paris, yet President Jacques Chirac too has invoked the French Revolution to sell the constitution to his countrymen, though, not to tear it down. |
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