The associated regulations end the practice of raising stock in the same conditions but from multiple regions, including all of Provence, the Massif Central, and the Piedmont.

[5] While the southeast of Gaul was a land Burgundian under King of the Ostrogoths, Theodoric the Great conquered the region between Durance, Rhone and Isere in 510.

[9] The coup of December 2, 1851 by Napoleon III committed against the Second Republic of France provoked an armed uprising in the Basses-Alpes, in defense of the French Constitution of 1848.

After the failure of the uprising, severe repression continued for those who stood up to defend the Republic: new inhabitants of Sigonce were brought before the Joint Committee, the most common punishment of deportation to Algeria.

[10] Like many municipalities in the department, Sigonce had a school well before the Jules Ferry laws: in 1863, they already had a primary education that provides boys, the chief town.