[HIGHLIGHTS] “My ancestors arrived in 1878”: in Lège-Cap-Ferret, the village of L’Herbe perpetuates the oyster farming tradition

Lège-Cap-Ferret's nine oyster villages are its pride, its lungs and its heart. Report from the most emblematic of them, the village of L'Herbe.

“My ancestors arrived in 1878, under Napoleon III, when these villages were created,” recalls Patrick Ducasse, 73. Only 40% of historic families, settled before 1965, still live in L’Herbe, and they are the last to have a hereditary and transferable right to these houses.