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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.