
A picture taken on September 15, 2016 shows the "Hangmen Room" (Salle des Pendus), where miners changed clothes, at the the pit-head of the mine in Oignies, which was featured in the film "Germinal" and which is becoming a "city of music" with the opening of recording studios and an auditorium, three years after the opening of a futurist concert hall. / AFP PHOTO / DENIS CHARLETDENIS CHARLET/AFP/Getty Images

