And then, in 1538, the Guerres were present at a contract that marked how far they had come in their eleven years in Artigat: the marriage of Sanxi’s only son Martin to Bertrande de Rols, daughter of the well-off Rols family on the other side of the Lèze. That Bertrande’s father thought this an acceptable match bears further witness to the relative openness of the village to newcomers during these years.
