This share of 250 francs No. 473 belongs to the Société Civile et Particulière de Forgouite, a local entity in Remiremont in the Vosges, dating from 1872-1873. The period is historically charged: the Vosges territory was at the heart of Franco-German tensions following the war of 1870-1871. Alsace-Lorraine had just been annexed by the German Empire, and Remiremont, a textile and forestry town located a few kilometers from the new border, was living through a painful period of reconstruction. The term "Forgouite" possibly evokes a place name, a forest estate, or a rural Vosges holding.