But the Balguerie had not foreseen that a law would be passed in 1880 prescribing the abolition of tolls within 8 years; on 31 December 1885, a buy-back agreement was signed between the department and the concessionaires, to the great displeasure of the Balguerie.
Here, in a relaxed morning atmosphere that may surprise in 1918, we catch a glimpse of the daily life of the Clairacais chatting near the Rabié bakery; cit is summer, a little girl accompanies her mother and carries a bouquet of yellow flowers ; sitting on the parapet of the quay, a man reads the letter that one of his comrades probably sent him from the front, “We'll get them!”; two friends are talking, basket in hand or on their head, before crossing the Lot to Longueville. Attached to the façade, electrical insulators remind us that Clairac has been electrified for over two decades, thanks to the mill and the ingenuity of Gabriel Martin and René Bichon.
If you want to see what these grant posts could have been, you only have to go to Vianne, where not only the suspension bridge still exists - as in Roussannes - but its two pavilions as well.
The life of Charles Laffitte, who died in the 1930s, is not well known; the family of Jean Pons having been very close to this artist at the end of his life, only the latter can still speak about it. Probably from Bordeaux, who would have taught mathematics, Charles Laffitte must have come to Clairac at the beginning of the 20th century. Single, he lived on the road to Villeneuve. We know of him various views of Clairac: the bridge, the island of Pont-Peyrin, the hold and its washerwomen…
