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In the courtyard of the Caillouade house, a gavache well, stone well, high, covered and closed by a gate. These wells appeared in large numbers in the villages after 1453, during a difficult period when the region had become desert, the population having been decimated by the 100-year war. At that time, emigration from Saintonge and Poitou was encouraged. The Saintonge peasants who spoke in the language of oil brought new peasant traditions, in particular that of the closed and covered wells known as gavaches (gavacho: term designating the immigrant).