English subtitles for clip: File:Algier1954.ogv

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(♫ upbeat, busy-sounding music)

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Algiers — a busy piece of metropolitan France
transplanted across the Mediterranean.

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Frenchmen have lived
and ruled here since 1830.

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More than one million Frenchmen
in Algiers rub elbows with more

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than ten million Muslims.

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Man on horseback, symbol of France,
stands in Algiers' main square.

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On the surface, Muslim
and Frenchman live well together:

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They shop in the same stores.

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Street cafés on a quiet afternoon.
Even a milk bar.

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(♫ mysterious-sounding Arabian flute music)

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The Casbah, the Muslim quarter,
locale of a thousand adventure stories.

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A part of the non-French past.

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The beaches of Algeria are just
across the Mediterranean from the Riviera.

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The bathing suits are just as brief,

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the lovers just as tanned.

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(♫ drum-heavy dance music)

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Algiers is wild and wicked,
and gay and naughty.

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The European there always saw
something wild and exotic about

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the Southern shore of the Mediterranean.