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Looks newer than that.. The bars and stem are clearly no older than the 1970s.. Before that they all had, I think, protruding hex bolts.. The brake levers look too much newer.. perhaps even 1980s Dia-Comps.. 1960s Campa looked different.. And Mafac, Universal etc. which were also common had very different levers.. I see sidepulls.. and one that don't look like anything from Campa.. I'd guess some cheap CLBs or maybe Weinmann.. So much of it says 1970s bike boom to me...
I don't see them..
Geometry looks road to me.. Back in the 1960s and into the 1970s a lot of frames were made with similar geometry.. I have an old multigear Gitane from the late 1960s/early 1970s that is pretty similar.. made with all DB Reynolds 531 tubing (interestingly with French OD) it has Simplex drop-outs and a bolt-on hanger... In its day it, however, came with bits from Stronglight (93 cranks and BB), Simplex, Mafac and Ideale.. Campa introduced their coterless cranks in 1958 so by the early 1960s every better road bike was coterless--- save for some touring die-hards.