The village is nestled in the heart of the green valley of Chapeauroux. Its houses clinging to the hillside rest on huge granite blocks. The village square has kept its market hall, with its enormous granite pillars, its granite fountain also bears the statue of Notre Dame de Garonne and its small chapel of the Penitents, which reminds us that the locality was once home to a brotherhood. An impressive ceremony marked the procession on Maundy Thursday. The penitents advanced to the haunting rhythm of a funeral chant, wearing a pointed hood, pierced at the eyes. One of them, dressed in a red robe and barefoot, carried a four-metre high cross. The 11th century church, destroyed in 1830, was rebuilt in 1870. Much more recently, Auroux was one of the first electrified villages in France, thanks to one of its inhabitants struck by modernity, Casimir Coze. This renowned beekeeper, who even won the first prize for honey at the 1900 Paris fair, discovered electricity during one of the fairs he attended. He brought the principle back to his house. In 1904, he installed a turbine on the Chapeauroux to light his apiary and his sawmill and, in 1906, he extended the installation to the whole village. The scientists Pierre and Marie Curie and their daughter Irene, rented a holiday home in Auroux and praised its beautiful air. Its sheltered location, the proximity of the Chapeauroux attracts summer visitors and fishermen.

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