©Maud Dumontant
This washhouse dates from 1868.
Many housewives went there, but there was first of all, holding the first places in the right of occupation and the language, the washerwomen by profession or the bugadières to whom they gave clothes to wash.
The word "bugado" comes from the old French "buer", do the laundry that gave in modern French, laundry, place where we do the laundry.
There was a bar above the laundry to extend the laundry and make it drain, there are still traces of insertion of this bar.
The word "bugado" comes from the old French "buer", do the laundry that gave in modern French, laundry, place where we do the laundry.
There was a bar above the laundry to extend the laundry and make it drain, there are still traces of insertion of this bar.
