en Ardèche, when leaving the small village of Saint-Pierreville, is the Ardelaine cooperative: nested at the bottom of the valley, near a river, the site is akin to a staging of beautiful coloured buildings, which have been carefully restored for more than 30 years: a restaurant, a shop, a factory, a bookshop and workshops are nearby in this welcoming area. At the coffee terrace, accompanied by the sound of a guitar scraped by a transient traveller, we met the founders of the cooperative, Béatrice and Gérard Barras, who in 1972 had shut down this wool spinning, the last of Ardèche, whose activity had ceased since the early 1960s. Ardelaine is now almost 50 employees, a multitude of activities (manufacture of mattresses and duts, original activities, but also a museum, a bookshop, a restaurant and, since 1986, an extension in the suburbs of Valencia, where Ardelaine has set up its clothing factories at the heart of the ZUP). And this always with the spirit of the origins: the desire to live in the country, to renew the philosophy of local development in the form of a territorial cooperative.