Saint-Quion

With its 17th and 18th century dwellings, Saint-Quion bears witness to the prosperity of the countryfolk under the Ancien Régime. Some of the old farms are arranged around courtyards, while others are aligned along the Blavet below. On your right, the domed bread oven is one of the hundred or so ovens listed in Quistinic on the Napoleonic land registry of 1843. Saint-Quion had three of them. It is characteristically domed, with a plant cover and a stone structure with a low-arched mouth. The oven was often shared: villagers took turns to provide the wood to heat the oven before putting the bread to be baked into it.