It was as they returned from the April meeting of SHAP, the Société Historique et Archéologique du Périgord at which the mayor of St. Denis had been installed as the new president, that the mayor asked his chief of police for a special favor.
“You know that our Society was founded on May 27 in 1874,” he began as they drove from the meeting in Périgueux back to their own commune some 40 kilometers to the south.
