Les témoignages les plus pertinents demeurent les actes d’amodiations (formes de locations) où, très souvent, le fermier (il s’agissait d’un «alpagiste») devait s’acquitter d’une redevance sous forme de fromages.
However, the key testimony remains the lease contracts where the farmer (who was an Alpine farmer) frequently had to pay rent in the form of cheeses.