 The strong rural and village character inherited from the prewar "Aigrefeuille d'Aunis" has been gradually reduced and the commune displays a more marked urban character, including the development of residential areas and renovation of the urban habitat.It is from the 1970s and especially during the decade of the 1980s, that the commune has initiated a voluntary program of urbanization by acquiring many subdivisions of houses grouped under the generic term of fief or suburb.It is in this period that the city has grown the most and suffered the most changes, gaining more than a thousand people between 1968 and 1982.