Winner of the 2024 participatory budget competition of the commune, the “School of Yesterday and Today” project imagined by the clan of five girls, Nicole, Claudine, Sylvie, Isabelle and Corinne saw the light of day after more than 6 month of investment.
This period was punctuated by the recovery of more than 150 class photos, old educational materials and meetings during which the Lévignacais were invited to participate in viewing the photos in order to put a name to more than 2000 schoolchildren who attended this old school. 1909 to 2006. For many these were moments of intense emotion, unforgettable reunions strewn with anecdotes between different generations of former students. The entire village was impatiently awaiting the dates of the event planned in the premises of the old school built in 1881 and permanently closed after the commissioning of the new Claude Nougaro primary school.
Jacques and Eliane Mengelle, private collectors of an astonishing collection of blotters and old school equipment, have given their agreement to exhibit eight display cases free of charge with everything that the students of yesteryear had in their wooden kits.
A reconstituted class from the early 20th century
Old desks stored in a garage were made available by the town of Montaigut sur Save allowing the reconstruction of a classroom from the beginning of the last century where many former schoolchildren tried their hand at dictating with a pen holder and purple ink.
If the day of Friday with the writing workshops was reserved for current students punctuated in the evening by the inauguration of the exhibition by the municipality, the weekend saw more than 500 visitors including Arnaud Simion, the deputy of the constituency , in rooms open to the public. Everyone agreed to praise the quality of this event, a typical example of an original intergenerational activity.
