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France’s last newspaper hawker gets Order of Merit after 50 years

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Hugh Schofield

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BBC Ali Akbar holds aloft a copy of Le Monde in front of a café in central ParisBBC

Ali Akbar, now 72, has spent 50 years selling newspapers on the Left Bank

He is France’s last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe.

Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris’s Left Bank for more…

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