In 1944 a group of resistance fighters, made up of German and Spanish anti-fascists and a few Frenchmen refusing to be drafted into the STO (forced labour in Germany), settled at La Fare. Eight days later, on 12 February, the militia blew up the buildings using dynamite. The maquisards, who had been warned in time, had already left.Since 1990, the hamlet has been repopulated, and its new inhabitants are restoring it. Today, some 30