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Extract from the Decazeville and Aubin Travel Guides: Somewhat surprising in such a quintessentially rural part of France,
DECAZEVILLE
, some 28km southeast of Figeac, owes its place in the annals of the nation's history to coal-mining and the role its well-organized Communist miners played in the local
maquis
and Resistance. It was the centre of the Rouergue - as this province of France is known - coalfield, and only came into being in the nineteenth century. The last mines ceased working in 1965 after prolonged industrial action by the miners, with the all-too-familiar economic and social consequences. The enormous crater of the last working mine, an opencast one known...
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