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Here, the vine is all-important.
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In Paris, it may be factories
and all that,

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but here it's the vine.
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Do you know who'll give us
the real scoop on Aniane?

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Yeah...
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Mrs Gay.
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Hello, Dog.
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He's not a mean dog.
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Without getting into politics
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or cheap anti-Americanism,
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we would've done the same
with Depardieu, who's here now.

:16:52
Whether it's Mondavi, Rothschild,
or someone from Bordeaux,

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for us the problem was the same.
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Our fight was against
the deforestation of those hills.

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They're among the last barriers
protecting towns like us

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from Montpellier's urban sprawl.
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It was the swindling
of the whole village.

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As always in history,
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God sent a lucky break:
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Municipal elections.
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That same year.
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The eyes of the world are on us,
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because we fought back
against Mondavi.

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We're the tiny village
that resisted a huge power.

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One day, we found out,
from the papers,

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that an American billionaire
was moving in on Aniane:

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Mondavi.
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- You found out from the papers?
- The newspapers!

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So you see, we were never warned.
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Things were going on
behind our backs.

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I honestly believed

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