Their names were Clement Gigi-Brewery, Dominique Ughetto or Giovane Bianco, and they lived in villages in Piedmont before fleeing poverty and Mussolini’s fascism from 1922. Sometimes alone, but often with their wives, these immigrants left their native Italy in hopes of building a better life here in Yvelines, and especially at the Revanche-à-Plaisir quarry, known today as the Hill of Elancourt.
Selected to host mountain biking competitions at the 2024 Paris Olympics, this land is poised to write a new history in which, a century earlier, nearly a thousand migrants labored painfully until they sometimes broke down. Here is the unusual and almost forgotten story of the quarrymen of Elancourt Hill, as told by one of their descendants.
Source: Le Parisien
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