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Earth of welcome and shelter :

A such passes permitted to the Chambon to become an earth of welcome and shelter.

Since the end of the XIXème century works him of Children in Mountain sends every year to the good air several hundred of kids of the Loire.


In 1914, the village shelters some Alsatian refugees, and of 1936 to 1940 of the Spanish republican.

Of 1939 to 1944, the Chambon and the around villages of the Mazet Saint-Voy, Freycenet Saint-Jeures, Fay-sur-Lignon, Devesset, Tence, Saint-Agrève, become a new earth of asylum for refugees and maquisardses.


Facing the temple, a commemorative plate gives back homage discreetly to inhabitants of the Tray for their hospitality perilous of 1939/1944 towards persecuted them.

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