Sections
The six broad divisions of the site. Each section gathers several topics.
The cannery 15 articles
Half a century of canning in Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, told by the people who worked there: receiving the tomatoes, peeling, seaming, ketchup.
The land 13 articles
Roads, streets, bridges, waterworks and place names — how the seigneury was drawn on the ground.
Work 12 articles
Mills, mines, timber, shops and services: what people here made a living from.
Stories and daily life 14 articles
A tornado, a young immigrant in 1951, what people drank under the French regime — history as it was lived.
The people 10 articles
The parish priests, doctors, schoolteachers, families and associations of the seigneury.
History of the seigneury 7 articles
1672 or 1679? Romain Becquet, Louise Mousseau, the manor, the domain: the history of the fief itself.