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Wash houses were for a very long time real places of life in cities and villages.
Saint Philibert, a monk in the 7th century, founded several monasteries including that of Noirmoutier where he died on August 20,
The communal wash-house was built in 1731 on the initiative of Abbé Pierre BOUSSEAU, the parish priest.
ARANOV (Association pour la Recherche Archéologique sur l'Ouest et le Nord-Ouest Vendée) carried out the excavations between 1985