Sigonce (; oc, Sigonça) is a

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in the

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Alpes-de-Haute-Provence or sometimes abbreviated as AHP (; oc, Aups d'Auta Provença; ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the south, Vaucluse to the west ...

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in southeastern

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Sisteron lamb

Sisteron lamb is native of the departments of

and

Drôme Drôme (; Occitan: ''Droma''; Arpitan: ''Drôma'') is the southernmost department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France. Named after the river Drôme, it had a population of 516,762 as of 2019.

. Derived from traditional farms, the parent breeds being the Merino d'Arles and the Southern Alps Mourerous, they are kept on their mothers for at least two months in pastures of at least ten hectares, and stocked at fewer than 10 sheep per hectare. These lambs are registered under the ''Institut national de l’origine et de la qualité'' (INAO). The associated regulations end the practice of raising stock in the same conditions but from multiple regions, including all of Provence, the Massif Central, and the Piedmont.

Population

History

Some discoveries attest to an active state of this town dating to prehistoric and Roman eras.

Antiquity

In ancient times the territory of Sigonce was part of the Sogiontiques, whose territory extends south of the Baronnies à la Durance. The Sogiontiques are federated to Voconces and after the Roman conquest, they were attached with them in the Roman province of Narbonne. In the second century, they were detached from Voconces and formed a separate civitas, with its capital 'Segustero' (

Sisteron Sisteron (; , oc, label=Mistralian norm, Sisteroun; from oc, label=Old Occitan, Sestaron) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, southeastern France. Sisteron is situated on the banks of the rive ...

).Brigitte Beaujard, " Les cités de la Gaule méridionale du IIIe au VIIe s. ", ''Gallia'', 63, 2006, CNRS éditions, p. 18-19

Middle Ages

While the southeast of Gaul was a land Burgundian under King of the Ostrogoths, Theodoric the Great conquered the region between Durance, Rhone and Isere in 510. The town briefly depended once more on Italy until 526. To reconcile with the Burgundian king, Gondemar III, the regent Ostrogothic Amalasuntha gave him the territory.Audrey Becker-Piriou,
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", ''Revue historique'', 2008/3, n° 647, p. 531. The town of Sigonce was, for the first time, in charters in 1206. It was then a hunting reserve list of the counts of Forcalquier, which was given to the Ganagobie Priory. The feud is therefore within the Abbey of Cluny through Ganagobie.Atlas historique de la Provence, p. 200-201Daniel Thiery,
Sigonce
", ''Aux origines des églises et chapelles rurales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence'', publié le 22 décembre 2011, mis à jour le 23 décembre 2011, consulté le 28 août 2012 The Aris community ('Arises'') reported began as early as 960, when its territory was given to the Abbey of Ganagobie, which counted 21 villages in 1315, but was heavily depopulated by the crises of the fourteenth century (Black Death and the Hundred Years' War) and annexed by that of Sigonce in the fifteenth century. The community was under the magistrature of Forcalquier.

French Revolution

During the French Revolution, the town developed a political scene, created after the end of 1792.

Since the Revolution

The coup of December 2, 1851 by Napoleon III committed against the Second Republic of France provoked an armed uprising in the Basses-Alpes, in defense of the French Constitution of 1848. After the failure of the uprising, severe repression continued for those who stood up to defend the Republic: new inhabitants of Sigonce were brought before the Joint Committee, the most common punishment of deportation to Algeria.Henri Joannet, Jean-Pierre Pinatel, " Arrestations-condamnations ", ''1851-Pour mémoire'', Les Mées : Les Amis des Mées, 2001, p.71. Like many municipalities in the department, Sigonce had a school well before the Jules Ferry laws: in 1863, they already had a primary education that provides boys, the chief town. The same instruction was given to girls, although the Falloux law (1851), which required the opening of a girls' school in municipalities had more than 800 unsupported inhabitants., (p) The town benefits from the subsidies of the second Duruy Act (1877) to build a new school.Jean-Christophe Labadie (directeur), ''Les Maisons d’école'', Digne-les-Bains, Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 2013,