Your thesis, produced at the Normal Higher School under the leadership of Nicolas Renahy and Sibylle Gollac, is entitled: “An inter-knowledge economy. Local trade and affiliations in a peri-urban town from western France from the interwar to the present day”. What interested you in this topic? The subject came up with a survey that I was conducting as a Master’s degree on the festive socialities of a 4000 city close to an average city of...