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Lille paints itself a shinier shade of red.(tourism in Lille, France helps compensate for lost mining and industrial jobs)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
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August 26, 2000
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LILLE
THE boulangeries in the surrounding villages have fastened their shutters and closed up for August. But in Lille itself, crowds bustle past the designer boutiques, chocolatiers and antique shops, or sip beer on the terrace in the Grand' Place. The French may have deserted this northern town for their seasonal migration south, but, confounding the sceptics, their absence is increasingly being offset these days by the novel arrival of foreign tourists.
To many French minds, Lille still carries echos of Emile Zola's novel "Germinal": at the centre of a ...
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