Nontron

Nontron lies in the wooded country of northern Périgord, where ironworking and cutlery became important crafts. In the eighteenth century furnaces and forges worked along the region's rivers, using charcoal from its woods. The Bernard and Petit families became associated with the making of Nontron knives. An inspection in 1788 counted several cutlers in the town, whose knives were especially esteemed among those produced in Périgord.