I uploaded some pictures on "La Villate"'s restoration since 1986, manor whose characteristic is a circular tower tufa staircase (white stones used in France to build castles) as well as a cellar vault. These images show little of what has been accomplished throughout these years nor how much it impacted our father's health to be working restlessly on his own on restoring La villate.

DEMEURE DU XVe-XVIe:

It took our father a year every week-end to restore the main room's tufa floor, still working in his workshop at the same time. He took off all the heavy tufa tiles that he had discovered by chance below the ceramic tiles, numbered them, gave their former spark back one by one and replaced them at their exact original place.

We can still see the place where, at the beginning of the 20st century, a bed was set near the fireplace and had "dug a hole" in the tiles. A very nice lady visited us in 1999 as she was in search of her birthplace La Villate, where her birthbed used to be heated up by the embers and flames of this chimney taller and larger than a man.

Laure, Florent & Gwennaël