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La Ferme de Pérignat is a farm located in Saint-Étienne-sur-Reyssouze, in the Ain department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It consists of three main buildings: the farm body, the pig house with its bread oven, and the barn. The farmhouse, remarkable for its high ceilings (2.65 m) and stone slab floors, suggests a certain ease of use for its owners. Probably rebuilt in the 18th century, it reuses beams dating back to the 15th century, attesting to an older history.

The two-storey polygonal farm mite is a brick and torchi architectural element. Nicknamed the "sarrazine fireplace", it is surmounted by a wrought iron cross and once served to warn field workers through a bell, now gone. Although its unusual style seems atypical for a traditional Bressane farm, it gives the place a unique character. The farm has been classified as historical monuments since 23 April 1981.

The presence of a round fireplace bounded by a circle of stone, surmounted by the mitre, evokes a domestic and agricultural organization typical of the Bresse. This type of construction reflects the importance of farms as centres for community and economic life in the region, where agriculture and livestock have been structuring the daily lives of local people since the Middle Ages. The preservation of this building is a valuable testimony to construction techniques and rural lifestyle in Bresse in the 18th and 15th centuries.

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