Adopted from Nazaire since 1980, Jacky Perreaz has built up collections of impressive documents linked to the memory of Saint-Nazaire-en-Royans.
When Jacky welcomes us to his home, he directs us to his Ali-Baba cave, located high up in the garage. A large office filled with objects and documents then opens up to us. A place dedicated to local memorywith binders, books and other trinkets. First there are the photographic collections. Jacky specifies: “I have saved nearly 10,000 photos from 1995 to 2020 in the town, as well as 3,500 other photos from 1870 to 1995.”. Jacky is a wise photographer. The retiree is also the author of around twenty brochures recalling the history of Nazaire for centuries. Ten binders of newspaper articles are neatly arranged on the shelves.
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A local figure
Born in Romans-sur-Isère in 1944, Jacky Perreaz spent his professional career within CERCA (today Framatome). Married with two children, he built a building in Saint-Nazaire-en-Royans in the early 1980s. Jacky was deputy, then municipal councilor from 1995 to 2020. He served three different municipalities. He loves this village for which he was in charge of patriotic commemorations for 25 years. He was at the origin of the creation of the Memorial dedicated to those shot by the Resistance during the summer of 44.
