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There are no jobs. The stores are deserted; the banks are closed.

The park benches and the libraries are filled. They are the two hotspots for the newly unemployed.

While getting an encyclopedia for a school project, you walk by some twenty men taking refuge in their reading. Your eyes linger on one of them. His five-o’clock shadow, his blue eyes glued to the page. Nothing can come between him and what he is reading. He seizes the words like a wolf seizes its prey. They are practically bleeding. They are no longer a refuge; they are a lifebuoy.

Your eyes move down the man’s long legs, which lead to his feet, which are bare, wrapped in newspaper. You’re sure he read it with the same intensity before using it as protection. He knows the words he is walking in.

We believe that the main causes of the crisis are moral and that we will cure them through a return to the Christian spirit.

Introduction to the Programme de restauration sociale (1933)