Bougnat: noun or bougniat; bouniat; bougnia; bougna; bougnant; bounia; bougniate; bougnate; bouniate (words from charred : coalman, pleasant imitation of the speech of the Auvergnats).
Charcoal maker, charcoal merchant; wine, wood, charcoal merchant; cabaret-keeper, restaurateur; Auvergnat, Auvergnat retailer of wines and charcoal merchant in Paris; coal seller and Auvergnat (*).
(*) AT Paris, many brasseries ou bistros are still held by Auvergne. A notable number of Auvergnats migrated to Paris between the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth century, the city in which they are called Bougnat.
For example, there were 212 Auvergnats in Paris in 400. The Auvergne population also migrated to Brittany and even to Provence.