The wealth of the Brie comes from its earth… One speaks of this region as the " attic to wheat " of Paris. And the instrument of the identification briarde is without dispute the plow, whose local conception defers the one of other regions. An unique conception that makes it especially easy of use and fast. The local plow, as the one preserved in the Museum Briard, is composed of two subsets: The actual plow (with a plowshare and an ear fixed on a beam to 45° named " Hedge "), and his/her/its before train of rolling. The two wholes are connected one to the other by two chains and by a screw without end that permits to adjust the height of every element in relation to the other.
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Hammers of Rayonneurs
photo: M. Ledant
If the former factories of millstones of la Ferté-Sous-Jouarre disappeared today, one keeps all the same again the draws this former ability. Thus, a collection of hammers of " Rayonneurs ", preserved in the Museum Briard. These double hammers, conic, permitted to dig in the millstone many furrows of 3 to 6 mm of depths, and hence, for the main, of the œillade (central hole of the stone), active until the circumference of the feuillère (periphery of the millstone). |
