Conférence d’Inès Léraud et Léandre Mandard : "L’histoire enfouie du remembrement"

Lecture by Inès Léraud (to be confirmed), documentary filmmaker, and Léandre Mandard, agrégé d'histoire

In the second half of the 20th century, the French government launched a vast operation to reorganize the French countryside, which had a lasting impact on Brittany: remembrement.

Intended to rationalize agriculture by regrouping fragmented land, this development profoundly altered landscapes, ecological balances? and rural society. Hedges and embankments were felled, roads redesigned, watercourses straightened and wetlands drained: the countryside was transformed in the name of modernity.

While some saw consolidation as progress, many farmers experienced it as a despoilment, a brutal break with their customs, their neighborhoods, their way of life and their way of farming. Behind this technocratic project lies a history of conflict, suffering and resistance.