The overgrown ruins and collapsed roofs of the French Arthur de Buyer coal mine at no point suggest that a French record was broken here in 1900.
Anyone on their way to the top of the Colline Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, to visit le Corbusier's chapel will come across another concrete gem at the foot of the mountain, namely the headframe of the Puits Sainte-Marie coal mine.
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