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DRYSTONE
HUTS OR TSABONES AT THE PLACE KNOWN AS LE CROUZAS
IN
VALS-PRÈS-LE-PUY, HAUTE-LOIRE
Photos
by Gérald Pinault
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French
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Tsabone
with circular buttressing |
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Front
of a tsabone with two levels: |
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The
same: the opening at the back |
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The
same again: downward view of the interior from the rear opening |
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Small-sized
tsabone under a chambée or agricultural terrace |
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Tsabone
overlooking an agricultural terrace |
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Tsabone at the edge of
parcel of land |
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Andrieu's drystone hut, the
largest tsabone in the whole Crouzas area
(as many as 50 persons can pack into it) |
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Tsabone surrounded by
vegetation |
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Tsabone in the midst of
agricultural terraces |
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As can be expected, other places
than Le Crouzas can boast having such-like huts or "chibottes" as scholar Albert
Boudon-Lashermes used to call them :
MONS, BEAUBAC DE POLIGNAC, COUBON, ESPALY, CEYSSAC LA ROCHE, TAULHAC, CHANCEAUX,
LE MONASTIER-SUR -GAZEILLE, CHOSSON, LE PUY. |
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The Velay winegrower and builder
of tsabones |
Pour imprimer, passer en mode paysage
To print, use landscape mode
© CERAV
January 16th, 2006
- Augmented on March 30th, 2006
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