Bangard
The bangard is the man charged with the respect of the Ban S : i.e. spaces of assignment of the cultures (corn, oats, rye, potatoes, meadows) and moment of harvests (haymaking, harvest, grape harvest).
A " bangard" of a Rural policeman was thus more or less the equivalent or a Guard-messier.
Until 1914, the banns were fixed by public meeting of the peasant-owners in the parish church.
Currently, the term of " round of applause of the Vintage s" is still used in some areas.
This habit compelled the community with a four-year rotation with use of a round of applause of the fallow. It allowed also a Community work and a mutual aid (loan of attachments to extract the embourbés carriages, to climb with load a steep slope, etc). It also avoided the devastation of harvests by too early or disorganized passages.
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