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"LES CABANES" OR "LES SAVOURNINS BAS" – ALIAS "LE VILLAGE DES BORIES" – AT GORDES, VAUCLUSE Christian Lassure
A conference with slide show
given at the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris Part 7 |
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58 - Group VII: view from the West
Esthetically, this is one of the most pleasing groups of buildings in the site. These are a dwelling house, a barn-cum-silkworm house, a store house, a treading house with vat, a goat house and a pigstie. |
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59 - Ditto
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60 - Group VII: view from the East
On the left, the barn-cum-silkworm house (the initial building); on the left, the dwelling. |
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61 - Group VII: the barn
The only entrance that is covered by an arch of stone voussoirs instead of a stone lintel. |
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62 - Ditto: the entrance
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63 - Group VII: the dwelling
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64 - Ditto: the entrance
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65 - Group VII: the threshing yard outside the barn
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66- Group VII: the dwelling viewed from the South
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67 - Ditto: view of the corner stones
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68 - Group VII: view of the flight of steps leading to the treading room
Behind the flight of steps, the store house; on the left, the goat house. |
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69 - Ditto
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70 - Ditto
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71 - Group VII: gutter between the dwelling and the barn
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72 - Group VII: entrance of the goat house
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73 - Group VII: view from the South
From left to right: the vat house with its entrance, the rear parts of the goat house and pigstie. |
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74 - Group VII: view from the West - entrance of the vat house
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75 - Unidentified half-nave West of the so-called "village"
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76 - Ditto: side view
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77 - Ditto: rear view
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78 - At Les Savournins Hauts, interior of a cabane still used as an outbuilding
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This writer, in December 1976
© Christian Lassure May 3rd, 2004 |
