The commoners come courtesy of a theater troupe full of laborers rehearsing a play to be performed at a royal wedding.
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Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
It is staged in this quaint Tyrolean hamlet of 8,000 residents, and each year attracts 45,000 paying fans, as well as celebrities and politicians who intermingle with depraved commoners like few places in the winter world.
What began in Manchester with an 1819 massacre of peasants gave birth to the world's first workers' movements, trade unions and an idea of equality that has fueled social justice and labor movements around the world.
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Lauren Frayer,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2025
French peasants at work, rendered with maximum sentiment by the likes of Jean-François Millet.
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