FETE DES BATTAGES ET DES VIEUX METIERS
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This is the 48th edition of this event that plunges us into the early 20th century. No less than 300 volunteers in period dress are mobilized to enliven the day and bring back to life with the gestures of yesteryear, harvesting, field work, old-fashioned threshing (mowing, threshing with winnowing machines driven by the locomobile), ploughing, old trades, old-fashioned bread making, old-fashioned games ... You can see a Gallic harvester (called a "vallus" at the time), the ancestor of agricultural machinery; it was used by the Gauls for field work. As for entertainment, the harvest mass is held in the morning, followed by a country meal on the banks of the river Ognon, in the afternoon, a parade of harvesters, threshers, with period equipment, tanks...
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