Where is this Marmailli whose name is now forgotten? Between the Villeneuve road to the north, the bridge road to the west, Pujols street to the south, and the Orliac road to the east. In the marriage contract of Paul Daucinanges, a merchant, and Isabelle Dubalut, recorded by the notary Chaumel in March 1743, the dowry of the latter includes, in addition to the sum of 1000 livres, a boiler at Marmailli, and a house on the banks of the Lot at Maubourguet. Why a boiler? Many tanners were established in Marmailli and the boiler was part of their working tools.
Today all the plum trees of Marmailli have been uprooted, replaced by pavilions built since the 1950s, making this area away from the village a residential area.
Fortunately, the plum fields are still there, from the confluence to Villeneuve-sur-Lot to grow this beautiful plum d'ente, famous all over the world!
The Faragou family had hatters in their family, a profession that was widespread in Clairac. At the age of 45, Marguerite Faragou married Gabriel Sagrini (mayor of Bourran from 1929 to 1933), son of Charles Sagrini, piano teacher, and Marthe Larrat. This late marriage allows us to date her works, sometimes signed Marguerite Faragou, or MF, or Marguerite Sagrini after her marriage in Bordeaux in 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Sagrini lived in the former Poulard estate in Saint-Brice. Some former Clairacais still remember Mrs Sagrini coming to Clairac in her horse-drawn cart. In the 1960s, on the advice of Claude Martin, she gave the Departmental Archives of Agen many of the archives kept at Poulard, collected by Dr Larrat, the former mayor of Clairac. This “fonds Sagrini” is well known to all those who work on the history of our city.
Marguerite Sagrini possessed a real artistic talent and represented many of Clairac's picturesque viewpoints, often in watercolours, preserved in the Clairacais families.
