The Ville-en-bois ("wooden city")

Around 1750, when the banks of the Scorff were bursting with shipyards, the workers began to occupy the land and settled there by building cabins from salvaged wood. The name of Ville-en-bois is used in opposition to the city of Lorient where houses and buildings were built in stone. The district will be the first in Lorient to suffer the Allied bombing on the night of 26 to 27 September 1940.