Kerspern

The village of Kerspern, now part of Plouay, retains a few thatched cottages. At the beginning of the 20th century, they were still home to families working as ropemakers. They may have been the descendants of the Caquins or lepers, condemned by their contagious disease to live on the outskirts of towns and cities. Stigmatized in the Middle Ages and under the Ancien Régime, even after the disease had disappeared, they and their descendants were forced to remain in the leper colonies, and for a long time confined to the trade of ropemaker.