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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Agriculture and industry are thus going here hand in hand, the importance of not severing the union being perhaps best…”

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Agriculture and industry are thus going here hand in hand, the importance of not severing the union being perhaps best seen at Loudéac, a small town in the midst of Brittany (department of Côtes-du-Nord).
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin stresses the importance of the relationship between agriculture and industry in Brittany.

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