The pandemic has had negative consequences on the association, whose membership has fallen, explained President François Pointereau. The Thursdays of History stopped in March 2020.

Towards a resumption of the Thursdays of history

However, the link has been maintained with the adherents, thanks to the edition of the Small newspaper . The publication of articles of a historical nature continued, and Loire Beauce encyclopédia (www.loirebeauce-encyclopedia.fr ) has about five hundred articles. We discover both the inventor of the can opener butterfly (originally from Cravant) and Didier Languillaume, the Beauceron storyteller of the Lament of the old drummer , recently disappeared.

And this period saw the realization of the project of inventory of the civil, rural, environmental and religious heritage of the forty-eight municipalities of the Country. In addition, on the Patrimoscopia website (www.patrimoscopia.fr ), the files of the 1,862 dead for France from Loire Beauce, during the First World War.

The resumption of Thursdays of history is on the agenda, with a first festive meeting around folklore, then on the themes of water and climate, and the 200 years of the Chappe Tower. An exhibition on the megaliths of the Loiret is also planned. And finally, the archaeological project Le Chetieau should make it possible to discover what the largest medieval mound of the Loiret hides, in Tournoisis.