Word: cormaud
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Next day, an anguished howl was heard across Paris. The chiffoniers cried thatthe Prefect was out to rob 50,000 people of their honest work. Several thousand gathered in cramped, dim-lit Jean Jaurès Hall to hear stooped, 63-year-old René Cormaud, who "does" the rue des Ecoles and the rue Monge, defend chiffonage. Said Cormaud: "It's those fly-by-nights who cause all the trouble. They have no sense of professional standards. Instead of emptying each can carefully on a burlap sack to sort it out, they dump the garbage helter-skelter...
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