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Dans l’identité de la France, Paris est à la fois une mémoire et une espérance.
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The sentence presents Paris as part of how France understands itself. Calling it “a memory” points to the past held in the city’s identity, while “a hope” points toward what is still imagined or desired. Paris therefore connects remembrance with expectation within the idea of France.
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