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- <text id=90TT2181>
- <title>
- Aug. 20, 1990: World Notes:France
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 55
- World Notes
- FRANCE
- Out on a Limb For the Trees
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Simonne Caillot, a writer and former schoolteacher in the
- Normandy town of St.-Lo, has refused to eat for more than three
- weeks, and she shows no signs of ending her hunger strike.
- Caillot, 45, is protesting to ensure that the strip of trees
- on a 9,000-sq.-yd. plot of land she once owned will not be
- felled by its new owner.
- </p>
- <p> Caillot is a victim of remembrement, an obscure French rural
- code that allows community governments to redistribute land in
- the name of more productive farming. Her "save the trees"
- strike has brought to light simmering popular resentment
- against the policy, which is seen by its opponents as favoring
- influential landowners with big farms.
- </p>
- <p> After lengthy legal appeals, word came last week that the
- regional prefect has suggested that the case be reviewed--a
- difficult feat in August, when most of the French are away on
- holiday.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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