The glaziers had more intimate contact with the portrait than anyone else in France.

He was working as a glazier and playing a limited-contact flag version of Aussie rules with friends when he was introduced to Chapman.

Though he was raised by an impoverished working-class couple—his foster father was a glazier—it turns out that his birth father was a general and his mother was an aristocrat.

His father was a glazier — a tradesman who works with glass — and his mother was a cleaner, according to the London Daily Telegraph.

The strike was the union’s first in Western Washington in nearly two decades and followed walkouts by other construction workers in recent years, including crane operators, truck drivers and glaziers.