L'entreprise fabriquait trois
produits.
The company
manufactured three products.
Le premier
était le papier à cigarettes.
The first one was
cigarette paper.
Les gens
commençaient à fumer moins.
People started
smoking less.
Les productions
baissaient.
Production was
down.
L'entreprise Bolloré
savait fabriquer ce produit.
The Bolloré
company had the know-how to manufacture this product.
Note that when you
want to talk about things as they were or used to be in the past,
but no longer are, you need the imperfect tense, l'imparfait, as shown in the examples
above.
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