Lafarge Joseph

Up until when can one go back in the history of that isolated place? The answer is, until the 11th of August, 1717 precisely. It is in fact on this day that, by signed act before the notary in their own hotel in Mâcon, Melchior-Esprit de La Baume (1679-1740), thirteenth count of Montrevel and lord baron of Lugny, master of cavalry, knight of the royal order, and military of Saint-Louis, after having received the permission from the king by the authorization of the 5th of February, 1715, sells to Jean Olivier, merchant based in Saint-Oyen, the woods on the place then called Les Grands Bois de Lugny, now corresponding to the Grand Bois, for the merchant to cut it.

Multiple documents testify that the locations were not replanted with woods and became a clearing on the plateau on top of Lugny. Moreover, a paper from 1778 confirms that the place does still belong to the Lugny's lords, the son of the one that sold the wood. On these records already, vines are appearing. Up to twenty-five people were counted living in the Grands Bois de Lugny.