Drinking water in Fanlac installed thanks to Jacquou le croquant

Fanlac, if this village of black Périgord is today a tourist place, there are still about sixty years, it hardly awakened echoes near the great majority of french people. But since the end of 1969 when the television soap opera “Jacquou le Croquant” by director Stellio Lorenzi was broadcast, things have changed a lot. The village has become a real curiosity. And Dilou remembers this shoot well. Aged 90, she knows that this filming has accelerated the arrival of drinking water in the village.

The director Stellio Lorenzi needed sheep and horses for the filming. It was very hot and water was needed to make them drink. we took them down two kilometers down the valley, to make them drink in the Thonac. We had to react, a village without water is not possible”

For centuries, the local well was the only source of supply. The drinking water network was installed thanks to subsidies obtained after the soap opera Jacquou le Croquant ended.