The 5000 great-combian souls gathered this Sunday, June 21, not to celebrate music, but its 180-year-old history, launched on June 17, 1846 by King Louis-Philippe. All day long, markets, exhibitions, rides, speeches, films and parades paid tribute to mining history, but also "of solidarity, mixedness, resilience and ability to reinvent themselves."
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The 5000 great-combian souls gathered this Sunday, June 21, not to celebrate music, but its 180-year-old history, launched on June 17, 1846 by King Louis-Philippe. All day long, markets, exhibitions, rides, speeches, films and parades paid tribute to mining history, but also "of solidarity, mixedness, resilience and ability to reinvent themselves."