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Émigré, any of the Frenchmen, at first mostly aristocrats, who fled France in the years following the French Revolution of 1789. From their places of exile in other countries, many émigrés plotted against the Revolutionary government, seeking foreign help in their goal of restoring the old regime.
I believe it was holding strikes and not showing up for works and boycotting work etc...
The answer to this is the second response I think