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Come in!

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- Good morning, miss.
- Good morning.

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Yes, leave it here.

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Wait.

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Here are my knives!

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My knives, my teaspoons.
Great, here are all my things.

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<i>They call her Lolo Pigalle.</i>

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<i>Of course, it is not her real name.</i>

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- Hello?
<i>- It's the garage.</i>

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Thank you.

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Please, madam.

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It's about my car, a Simca 1000.

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When will it be ready?

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<i>- What's your name?</i>
- Miss Perrot.

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The car will be ready at 2:30pm.
- 2:30pm only?

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- Are the bills ready?
<i>- They will be by then.</i>

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Very well, so I can come
to the garage from 2:30 on.

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All right, thank you.

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Goodbye.

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<i>She grew up in an orphanage.</i>

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<i>She never attended school.</i>

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<i>Her mother was abandoned with 5 kids.</i>

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<i>She says: "I raised the lot of them.</i>

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<i>"I could even say</i>
<i>"that I raised my mother too,</i>

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<i>"because everything she ever had,</i>

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<i>"I gave to her.</i>

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<i>"There was a time when, for my mother,</i>

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<i>"I earned up to 30,000 Fr a day.</i>

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<i>"I performed in 2 or 3 clubs in an hour.</i>

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<i>"Sometimes my knees</i>
<i>"would bleed from it all.</i>

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 <i>"My mother died last year."</i>

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- Miss Lolo!
- Yes?

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Mr Leclerc called for you.

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- What did he say?
- He wanted you to visit him.

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- When?
- In the afternoon, anytime.

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Thank you.

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<i>"Now I only work at night.</i>

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<i>"The boss pays me 7,000 Fr a day.</i>

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<i>"It's enough for me.</i>

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<i>"I get the days off.</i>

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<i>"When you live in poverty", she adds,</i>

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<i>"you know nothing else."</i>

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<i>We aren't here to judge.</i>

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<i>It's neither our role, nor our purpose.</i>

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<i>Especially for Lolo Pigalle.</i>

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Is stripteasing a real job?

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Yes, it's a real job,

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because if it's well done,

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it's artistic after all.

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You have to know how to walk,

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and dancing basics.

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You need to know,

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probably not how to act,

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but how to use your face,

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and to capitalize on your strengths.

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Actually, you don't really need...

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You don't have to be very pretty.

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As we say in this business,
you need to know how to sell your salad.

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Yes.

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But it is a real job.

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- It isn't only a matter of beauty.
- No.

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Contrary to the naked model

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who must have a great physique,
it isn't required for a stripper.

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A movement...

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It's mainly about movement.

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It could be...

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- The face is important too.
- Yes.

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A special face is more important
than a gorgeous body.

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Do you like your job?

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No.

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I don't like it.

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Is it hard to have a job you don't like?
This kind of job?

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- Yes, it's hard.
- In what way?

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To be a good stripper,
you need an exhibitionist streak,

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and I don't have it in me.

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I dislike that aspect the most.

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I can get undressed 10 times a day.

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It won't trouble me 10 times a day,

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but at least once a day,

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I realize what I'm doing
and it bothers me.

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The rest is just routine.

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What are people looking for
in a striptease?

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Not a woman getting undressed.

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No, I think it's the illusion.

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Of what?

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The illusion...

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If a woman gets undressed,

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they make her fit their imagination.

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The woman is always alone...

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In regular striptease, yes.

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So in short, she's available?

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Yes, in their minds.

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- Is that how it is?
- Yes.

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Are there ever couples
on the striptease stage?

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 Yes, there are,
but not in real, regular striptease.

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- The woman is alone?
- Alone.

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- And she's up for grabs.
- Exactly.

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It's terrifying to think

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that this woman on stage

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is taken by tons of people,
and she doesn't even know by whom.

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- You can feel it.
- Yes.

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Yes, because you notice it.

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When you look
the spectator in the eye,

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you can really read lots of things.

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Who are you on stage?

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You know, it's a bit like
being an employee.

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They come into the office,
leaving everything at home,

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all of their worries.

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You put a personality together.

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And when you leave
when the cabaret closes

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or when I leave,

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I take my uniform off
and try to become myself again.

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- Nudity is a uniform.
- Yes.

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It's a uniform.

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The person you are

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on stage,

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do you know her well?

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Yes.

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Yes, maybe,

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maybe better than the one off stage,

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because I live more
with the one on stage,

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since I spend much more time there

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than off stage,

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because I don't spend much time
off stage, and I need to sleep.

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It counts a lot...

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Yes, I don't sleep much.
I think it's a waste of time.

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Between you on and off stage,
there's sleep.

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Yes.
There's not much time left.

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And that's terrifying.

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When you sleep,
you don't own yourself anymore either.

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You own yourself
for only a very short time each day.

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- You're single.
- Yes.

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- You don't want to get married.
- No.

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- Nor have children.
- No.

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 - You don't want an apartment.
- No.

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There are other things in life
that bring you comfort.

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- Like friendship.
- Yes.

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It's the most important thing to me.

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Is there a...

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How shall I put it?

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Is there such thing

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as stripper's despair?

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Yes.

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Do strippers commit suicide?

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Yes.
But maybe they aren't...

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That despair isn't caused by the job.

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Despair,
because the job is like a circle.

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If you cannot leave
the circle at some point,

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if you aren't brave enough
to escape from it,

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you live your love life
within that circle.

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Then with unbalance comes despair,
hence suicides.

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It happens, unfortunately.

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 Yes.

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You don't meet
only good people in this job.

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You meet a lot,

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more ugly people than elsewhere.

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- Especially...
- What do you mean by ugly?

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They're ugly because...

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It's very hard to define.

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Some people have nothing,
neither brains, nor guts.

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This neighbourhood, for a woman...

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A woman in this neighbourhood,
in this job,

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is more often a prey for men.

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Have you been in contact
with the bourgeoisie?

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Yes.
Yes, because...

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Do you think they have brains?

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No, but they can hide it well.

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Do you see a big difference
between an actress and a stripper?

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It depends.

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For example, Jeanne Moreau
can be much more sensual,

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bolder than a striptease.

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It's all in her motive and in her face.

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What are you reading at the moment?

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I've been keeping up-to-date

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on trade unions and labour issues.

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Mainly to stay informed.

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And I'm re-reading
<i>The Lion </i>by Joseph Kessel,

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because it's so,

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beautiful and close to nature.

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So, you look out for your friends.

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Yes.

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Of course, a trade union
would be impossible.

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How do you go about it?
Do you ever get together?

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No.

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We can't have a trade union.

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It's more like a mafia.

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 When there's a job offer,

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I look for friends
who might be a good fit for it.

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I discuss the prices,
I ask them to not give in,

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which is very hard.

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If they don't give in,

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the others are forced to agree,
if there's a real need.

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- There are a lot of strippers.
- Yes.

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Do they come from other regions
or from Paris?

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From everywhere: 
the regions, Paris, every corporation.

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- From the bourgeoisie too?
- Indeed.

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Is it a vocation?

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No, that would be a lie.
I don't think so.

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Even if it was a calling,

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it wouldn't be profitable enough

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for a true vocation.

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You consider this job to be a real one,

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with an artistic component to it,

204
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and yet you're planning on retiring.

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That's because I'd like
to try and do something else.

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And you have to leave this job
before it leaves you.