Exhibition "Les Pastourelles de la Ligue auvergnate et du Massif central"

Accustomed to a harsh lifestyle, they took on humble but hard jobs: scrap metal workers, water carriers, home delivery bathers, coachmen, market stall workers, floor scrubbers, milkmen, caretakers...
By delivering coal to people's homes, the Auvergnats from Paris became the famous "bougnats". Hard-working and ambitious, they gradually moved into the ‘lemonade’ sector in the 20th century. For several generations, people from Aveyron, Cantal and Lozère sold out cafés-tabac, brasseries,...