Today in Labor History June 16, 1869: In the small mining town of Ricamarie, France, troops opened fire on miners who were protesting the arrest of 40 workers. As a result, troops killed 14 people, including a 17-month-old girl in her mother’s arms. Furthermore, they wounded 60 others, including 10 children. This strike, and another in Aubin, along with the Paris Commune, were major inspirations for Emile Zola’s seminal work, “Germinal,” and the reason he chose to focus on revolutionary worker actions in that novel.

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I’m horribly slow and dictionary reliant as my French really isn’t what it was and there are big/unusual words, but Zola’s “Germinal” really is good isn’t it?!

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🎬 Germinal (2021)

Subtitles available:
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
🇪🇸 Spanish

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🎞 IMDb https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10133336/

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https://hydracker.com/titles/134469/germinal

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