The closure of the Houve mine: 20 years later, nostalgia is still there for the old minors - France Blue

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The closure of the Houve mine: 20 years later, nostalgia is still there for the old minors - France Blue

On 23 April 2004, France's last coal mine, the Houve coal mine in Creutzwald, was shut down, and 20 years later, if the buildings and bridges had been dismantled, the young people who experienced this period still speak of it with nostalgia.