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The Conversations With Distinguished Gentlemen Issue

Hock Talk

Located in the heart of Le Marais, the poshest gay area in all of France, Crédit Municipal is the closet thing to a Parisian pawnshop you can find. It’s run by the city because private pawnbrokering is illegal.
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Vice: Is this your first visit here?

Latifa:

Did you just pawn something?

What did you do with the cash you got from pawning the jewelry?

Have you always retrieved your things?

How about you? Is today your first visit to the wonderful Crédit Municipal?

And why are you here today?

Do you think more people are pawning now because of the credit crunch?

They refused my uncle’s watch. Are the appraisers assholes?

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Vice: Hello there. How does your weird little operation work?

Giorgio Montanari:

What kind of things do you accept?

What’s the difference between the Italian practice and the international standard?

So there are no private pawnshops in Italy?

Are you still close with the church?

So you can sin like a motherfucker.

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