One important site is the school Deng attended, known as the Gambetta Secondary School, which is now the Town Hall of Montargis.

"The apartment that Deng used to live in was turned into the reception room of the Town Hall. But if you look through the window, the view remains exactly what Deng saw, since the town has barely changed over the years," said Stephane Poisson, Town Hall chief of staff.

Tourists could also visit the Hutchinson rubber factory where Deng used to work and rest in the quiet Durzy gardens where Cai Hesen and his wife Xiang Jingyu presented their ideas on saving China and building a new society to their compatriots in 1920.

Montargis is also the place where Cai sent the famous letter to Mao Zedong, who later became the founder of New China, in which he explained the necessity of creating a political party to establish a new society.

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