The board of directors of the Argenton History Circle met on Saturday January 11, 2025. After taking stock of the past year and discussing the last general assembly, it renewed the entire office chaired by Irène Gaultier and established the program of its activities for the first half of 2025, which will include three conferences. The first took place on Friday January 17. Annette Surrault spoke on the theme of mutual primary school in Indre.
On March 21, Jean-Pierre Surrault will discuss The First Workers of Indre: a social and cultural portrait, subject of his latest work; On May 16, Pierre Remérand will retrace the life and work of the etcher Charles Giroux, from Menoux.
An outing to the neighboring towns of Maillet and Malicornay will normally be held on Saturday April 26. The exact program and details will be communicated at the beginning of April.
A publication on primary school in the canton
This year the annual exhibition, organized as part of Heritage Days, will be held from Saturday September 20 to Sunday September 28, at the Saint-Benoit chapel, on the theme of water and its multiple components in Argenton and in the canton. , from the origins to the present day. It will bring together many aspects which remain to be defined.
If many members of the association have renewed their membership, the president Irène Gaultier recalled that their support is precious to perpetuate this dynamic structure which is doing well, but which is suffering from a drop in the sale of its publications.
-She added, on this subject, that an illustrated summary of the latest exhibition on primary schools in the canton will appear during the first quarter.
The office. President: Irène Gaultier; honorary president: François-Xavier Planque; secretary: Josiane Barré; assistant secretary: Nicole Dolbec; treasurer: Marc Lagonotte; deputy treasurer: Alain Gautier.
