► La rue Paul Creton nowadays

Paul Creton, living in Pont-de-Vie Vimoutiers, invented in 1640 the manufacturing process of the cretonne,

the heavy unglazed cotton/linen canvas with a sort of pearly grains,

also named in the past Canvas of Vimoutiers.

  ►Canvas and Cretonne

► The bombardment ► About the rebuilding