Versailles

Once the sight of a royal hunting lodge turned grand palace. Versailles and its neighbouring town have now acquired a new and much less exalted role. Since the French Revolution (well, the newest one) saw the collapse of the Third French Republic and it's replacement by the United Congress of Unions of France, (it's supposedly less clumsy in French though who's to say) Versailles has been used by those at the top of this equal society. Usually the President Chairman and his colleagues on the Chief Political Bureau, as well as their families, deputies, and hangers-on as a retreat from which they can get away from the stress of Parisian life.
Unfortunately it seems that the attractions of the town lie not in it's now abandoned palace. Left standing as a monument to the vanity of the bourgeois oppressors of the workers. Rather it is amongst the cafes, inns, and hotels and their "liberated" staff that such senior functionaries of the newest incarnation of the French state find their "relaxation" in a settlement where the worlds oldest profession is accepted not only as routine but perhaps the most common among the young, ad not so young, women of the town.
What is true and what is rumour is hard to discern at times. Though the liberal sexual mores of the country's ruling class certainly lends credence to all but the most outlandish tales. Besides, it is the ones which leave the details to the imagination that are the most titillating. in the eyes of many ordinary Frenchmen (and women, in this modern workers state) it is a sad thing to see such a symbol of France reduced to such indignity. However they simply have not had the time to allow their mores to catch up with those of their new cosmopolitan, educated elite, sorry, that is, union leaders and representatives. In due time these peasants will come to understand, and perhaps even appreciate the virtues of a spa town without the spa and plenty of wine and women, and men, and well, others too if the tales are not as tall as many would wish them to be. If these country bumpkins do resist the inevitable march of progress however, it may well be that the shall be made to enjoy life's new liberties.

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Town