In summer 1944, Ouroux-en-Morvan became the clandestine administrative head of the Nièvre. Robert Jacquin was appointed to take charge by the Provisional Government of the Republic. On 8 August 1944, the Ouroux-en-Morvan accords were also signed, uniting all of the Resistance in the Nièvre (French Interior Forces and the Francs-Tireurs and the French Partisans).