Torteron, a small 800 souls, is located exactly at the intersection of the 47 th parallel north and 3 rd Meridian east of Greenwich, rarely carried by the "Degree Intersection Project". There are only 78 such points in France. The story could be stopped, but it would be forgotten that in the nineteenth century, the metallurgy prospered in the Berry and owes much to what this bourgado was before a hamlet of Patina! A rich ore, forests with loss of sight, rivers, all of this allowed the extraction of precious bauxite. In 1868, it was consecration: Gold medal for the fonts of the Palais de l 'Exposition Universal. But ten years later, it is closure: In Lorraine, we develop another process that costs less about extraction and melting. It's all farm. Today, there remains the remains of the village of Saint-Louis specially created for the miners and thus named after Louis Boigues, the founder of the factories. Blast furnaces and lime kilns. The particularity of this village was in its urban design in radioconcentric form…

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