The 1907 French Wine Revolt

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An exhibition of photographs illustrating the mutiny of the French Army, during the 1907 French Wine Revolt - angry at the competition posed by cheap imports from Algeria, then a French territory, thousands of demonstrators, lead by Marcelin Albert from the small village of Argeliers, brought the whole department to a standstill. Units of the French army, ordered to disperse the winegrowers, mutinied instead and it took weeks of negotiation by the home minister, Georges Clemenceau, to reach a compromise

Photo: Malcolm Reynard

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