> Bernanos reminds us, “things are moving fast, dear[29] reader, they are moving very fast.” He recalls that he “lived at a time when passport formalities seemed to have vanished forever.” A man could “travel around the world with nothing in his wallet but his visiting card.” He recalls that “twenty years ago, #FrenchMen of the middle class refused to have their fingerprints taken; fingerprints were the concern of convicts.”
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