iron-industry see forges
Issoudun
journeys
Jouhanneau, Henri
Journal de l’Indre
judicial records
Lafitte, Jacques
Laurent
lavoirs
letters to Célestine
Le Roy, Eugène
lighting
literacy
linen-growing
Loire
Lloyd, Norman (painter); his house; see also Chaumette family, property
Lorant, Henri
Louis-Napoleon (Emperor)
Lourdes
madness
Mairie, in Chassignolles; building of; records in; see also Municipal Registers; Secretary of; telephone in
Magny, Le
map of Chassignolles
Mare au Diable, La, book; place
marriages, age at; celebration of
Mayer family
medieval ways, persistance of
Meunier d’Angibault, book; actual mill of Angibault
military service
millers
Millet, Jean-François
Montluçon
Municipal Registers, in Chassignolles
murder
Nadaud, Martin
Nantes
Napoleon, Bonaparte
Napoleonic Code
Napoleonic wars
Neuvy St Sepulcre
Nohant
nut oil
oak forests
‘Olden Days’
oldest inhabitants
Pagnard, Jeanne (Mademoizelle); description of family; father; grandparents see Chartier; quoted only
Pagnol, Marcel
patois
Paris: in Second World War; history moves away to; distant power in; emigration to; journey to; language of; railway to; news from; foundlings from; in the Revolution
Parisians in the Berry
paths
peddlars
pictures by Adolphine
Pirot, Antoine
Pirot, family; nineteenth-century mayor; present mayor
Pissavy family; setting up in La Châtre; presence in Chassignolles; connection with George Sand
Pissavy, Victor
Pissavy-Yvernault, Louis
population, rural; of Chassignolles; of Châteauroux; of the Indre; of La Châtre; see also birthrates
postcards
postal services
poverty: tradition of; absolute; alleviation of; Bernardets’; Célestine’s; Chaumettes’; genteel; in La Châtre
Préfet of the Indre
progress: concepts of; George Sand’s perception of; lack of; in Célestine’s lifetime; after 1870; increase in prosperity; decline of old traditions; economic expansion; new buildings in Chassignolles; in twentieth century
railways: coming of; schemes for; Châteauroux–La Châtre line; Châteauroux–Paris line; La Châtre station opened; branch lines; station near Chassignolles
Republic, Second; ending of
Republic, Third
Republicanism: in George Sand; in 1870; of Silvain-Germain; in La Châtre; at Villemort; in Chassignolles
Revolution, The; before; changes after; ideas from; pre-Revolutionary buildings; effects of; in Paris
roads: between La Châtre and Châteauroux; early; coming of; between Chassignolles and La Châtre; improvement of; built by Napoleon; more constructed
Robin, Blanche
Robin, Charles: name on grave; birth; as child; working in inn; marriage, personality; in later life; death
Robin, Pierre; opening inn in La Châtre; taking on Chassignolles inn; death
Robin, Zénaïde; dates; birth; as a child; life; death
Sand, George: naming Vallée Noire; château; origins; works; forseeing future; view of La Châtre; describing chanvreur; Republicanism of; rustic idylls; language of characters; teaching reading; first lover; fear of attack; friend; on love; seeing soldiers pass; association with Pissavy family; reputation
‘Saracens’
Sarzay, castle; village
Second Empire; celebrated in La Châtre; allegiance to; style of
Second Republic see Republic, Second
Second World War: in Paris; Bernardet’s experience of; Monsieur Démeure’s experience of; Occupation and resistance; since; refugees
school see education
Smith, Adam
Ste Sévère
St Aôut
St Denis de Jouhet
statue in wood
stone masons
suicide
superstititions
telephones
Tours
Vallet, Louis
veillées
Vierzon
Villaines, family; Hotel de
Villemort, Bois de; château
Vincent, Raymonde
Wars of Religion
water supply
weaving
Weber, Eugen
wool of Berry; flocks for
wolves
Young, Arthur
Yvernaults (of forges); Louis; Charles; Madame Yvernault; Marie-Rachel
Yvernaults (of inn)
Zola, Émile
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