Picket line at the Yèvre and Saint-Dominique pits in the Béraudière district of La Ricamarie on October 20th, 1948. The strikers prevented the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnies_R%C3%A9publicaines_de_S%C3%A9curit%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="en:Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité">Republican Security Corps</a> from accessing the mine. This event is part of the miners' strike of 1948. The photograph is notably published in the newspaper <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Humanit%C3%A9" class="extiw" title="en:L'Humanité">L'Humanité</a></i> the next day.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.retronews.fr/journal/l-humanite/21-octobre-1948/40/2769291/1">[2]</a>.
Léon Leponce (1893-1969)
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Archives municipales de Saint-Étienne, 5 Fi 389<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://archives.saint-etienne.fr/recherches-et-consultation-1/recherche-documentaire/archives-figurees?detail=124739&amp;positionResult=291&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--filtreGroupes%5Bmode%5D=simple&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--filtreGroupes%5Bop%5D=AND&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--filtreGroupes%5Bgroupes%5D%5B0%5D%5Barko_default_619cc6833f850%5D%5Bop%5D=AND&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--filtreGroupes%5Bgroupes%5D%5B0%5D%5Barko_default_619cc6833f850%5D%5Bq%5D%5B0%5D=5%20Fi%20%7CcommencePar&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--filtreGroupes%5Bgroupes%5D%5B0%5D%5Barko_default_619cc6833f850%5D%5Bextras%5D%5Bmode%5D=troncature&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--from=200&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--resultSize=100&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--contenuIds%5B0%5D=94890&amp;arko_default_619cc610c3e07--modeRestit=arko_default_619cc7bf4e74a">[3]</a>