Large pockets of clay provided the raw material for two potteries which employed about a dozen of workers. The various pots and pans were sold at the fairs of the neighbouring cantonal capitals. It is difficult to identify with certainty the objects “made in Molières”.
In addition to oil, the walnut trees provided wood for several clog makers. Five weavers (the “teyssiers”) went from house to house to make linen or, more frequently, hemp or wool cloth: this was for the clothes used by the peasants. The cotton was bought from the peddler.
With a school set up in a private house, nineteen beggars, four cabarets, a notary, a veterinarian, a doctor, a priest called “desservant” and his vicar, and all the other usual craftsmen of such a community, here is a quick portrait of our 19th century bastide.