Angelique Chrisafis explains in yesterday’s Guardian what’s on the other side of that door: Le Crédit Municipal, France’s public pawnbroker and, for a country with basically no credit cards, the only quick-cash game in town. (Business is up 30% over last year.) Close to a million objects are stored there, including a 50-year-old umbrella whose owner must be saving for more than just a rainy day.
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