Pierre Delort and his friend Bruno Besche-Commenges, two children from Lacourt, were interested in the history of their native village. The first, a former professor of Letters, retraces it in a book entitled “Men of carrou”. To write it, all its investigations required meticulous research, in particular because of the absence of historical chronology in the documents. But he was surprised to find in the departmental archives, acts of the notary Barbet de Rimont. This allowed him to trace the life of the Lacourtois under the reign of Henri IV, between 1505 and 1608. “Barbet had come to Lacourt from the start of his career, to help the three notaries of the village”. And when Pierre Delort presented his work to the Lacourtois, they recognized the names of their ancestors: Soucasse, Escassut or Maurette.
His friend, Bruno Besche-Commenges, then encouraged him to continue his investigations into the history of the village to trace it back to the 17th century. Pierre then consulted the national archives and discovered the extraordinary animosity between the people of Seix and Lacourt “which lasted until the Revolution”. And finally, Pierre Delort went well beyond his initial goal. “The title of the book is linked to two reasons. Historically, the cultivation of wheat was impossible due to the climate. From the end of the 14th century, buckwheat or buckwheat wheat, called in patois “carrou”, was the people’s main food. This polygonaceous, had a geometric shape, reminiscent of the square, hence its local name. This way of eating was a first great progress because it avoided starvation. The Lacourtois found with the carrou the basis of their food, because they could harvest two crops a year. But I also chose this title because when I was twenty, I had read “Corn Men”, a series of stories about the life of the Mayans, written by Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949″.
Currently, the author is working on the history of the Viscounts of Couserans during the Revolution with his friend Bruno Besche-Commenges. And both are still faithful to a common motto: “We make history with our hearts”.
2023-08-24 12:14:51
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