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The Middle Ages

January 28, 20212 Comments

Trouble at t'mill < Back to 'History' If you have read the page about the origins of le Moulin de la Roche, you'll know how excited I was to find that our mill was mentioned as one of the properties included in the donation Guy I de Laval made of his lands in Auvers in … Continue reading The Middle Ages

Tracing the history of our French home – Part 6

September 17, 2020February 13, 2021Leave a comment

Cartulaires (or 'If only I had paid attention in school...') Have you ever thought “Oh, how I wish I’d paid more attention to that in school”? Three of the lads in our gang of friends in my teens couldn’t wait to leave school and celebrated crazily when they left to start apprenticeships in local garages, … Continue reading Tracing the history of our French home – Part 6

Thank you, Abbé Toublet.

August 19, 2020February 13, 20213 Comments

So it probably won’t come as a surprise when I say that some of the most useful resources I found for finding out about the history of our French water mill were local historians. One of our first visitors when we moved into the mill was a local historian eager to find out how much … Continue reading Thank you, Abbé Toublet.

Part of history

December 27, 2018February 13, 2021Leave a comment

Although sitting doing nothing isn't normally in my nature ( I drive Colin mad by endlessly compiling and working my way through self-inflicted lists of 'things-I-just-have-to-do') I did spend some time this Christmas just kicking back, reading books, catching up on interesting websites I'd bookmarked about the local area and I fell to pondering. This … Continue reading Part of history

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