The site of Aujeurres, in a slight depression of the Plateau de Langres, has been inhabited by humans since the dawn of time. Our ancestors ten thousand years ago lived in caves under the cliffs. One day they shaped arrows, axes, and then built huts. Having learned masonry, they built houses with local stone. Our sunny slopes have always been conducive to agriculture, although sometimes of poor quality. They turn green in spring, and the nearby forests rustling in the breeze shelter myriads of birds, yet they groan in the wind on stormy days.
Aujeurres has practically been built on the roof of the world, on the watershed, but sheltered from the highest peaks. The Aube, which flows to the Seine and the English Channel, rises less than a league away, and the sources of the Vingeanne, which descends towards the Saône and the Mediterranean, are even closer. It is because water is an element of life that Aujeurres exists. While our ancestors only possessed animal instinct, that instinct fixed them here. The ridge line to the west has always been a crossing line, traversed by the paths of prehistory, and followed by the Roman road that went from Langres to Autun. Remains of that ancient time remain hidden in our land.
The aridity of the Plateau de Langres has always demanded strong and courageous men; our race has thrived in hardship, our boys are virile, and our girls are beautiful. We are the children of ancient Lingonie, a province with a name that is both powerful and sweet. We are people fond of space and freedom. The current times are hard for farmers, but our fields remain well cultivated. The abandoned farms, a ransom paid to modern times, are reclaimed and daintily arranged by those whom these times have driven away, but who return or have returned because they keep in their hearts the love of their native soil, this soil that remains a large part of themselves.

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