Maison des Fleurs
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Appartement de Roses et de Vignes
Listed in the Sunday Times 2018
'One of the top 20 gites in France'
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Sunday Times 2022
'One of the best 30 self catering gites in France'
Maison des Fleurs.'..sits at the heart of village life serving up southern France in all its glorious, sunlit simplicity. Antique bedsteads, window box geraniums and baguettes from round the corner are all part of the scene here. So, too, is a magnificent array of beaches & ancient monuments....' Sunday Times
Introduction
Maison des Fleurs
Appartement de Roses et de Vignes
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Appartement de Roses
et de Vignes
Domaine Cazilhac
Ferrals les Corbieres, South of France
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Domaine Cazilhac is a large Maison de Vigneron (Wine Maker's House) situated in the middle of the village of Ferrals les Corbieres. The first floor Apartment was, at one time, the owner's apartment, she was Germaine Simone Cazilhac who inherited the domaine from her parents; the apartment reflected her status - the rooms are huge. Carefully restored by ourselves, all the beams have been revealed and the original ambiance returned with the use of antique French furniture from the appropriate era.
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The Apartment has a huge, elegant bedroom complete with ciel de lit (canopied bed) and beautiful antique furniture. As the summers are extremely hot, this room has been fitted with air conditioning. The lounge has a gorgeous Juliet balcony and a canopied daybed plus other beautiful antique furniture, and a tv from which you can access Netflix & Amazon Prime free. The day bed in the lounge has linen stored in the buffet cupboard should you wish to use it as a single bed. The kitchen/dining room, again a large room, has a typical Landocienne fireplace with a feature wood burning stove. The kitchen retains the ambiance of the era but is very well equipped and, with its table seating up to eight, provides a very special place to taste the foods of the region with friends and family. The Apartment has wi fi.
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The Apartment has a small, private courtyard in front of the house on the ground floor, this is for guests to use only and has a table and chairs and recliners so you can eat and relax in the sun. It also has a garden which we are re-wilding, just 10 minutes walk from the house, there you can sit on the sun loungers provided amid the apricot, olive, lemon, fig and quince trees, in front of the river and next to our wildflower meadow - bliss.
The Apartment is accessed via a private spiral staircase which is in the garage. The garage was once the access to the barns and stables of the Domaine and would have been used by the horses and carts that transported the grapes for processing in the huge barns behind the house. The garage can be used by guests and, as it has huge lockable doors, it is a safe and convenient place to leave a vehicle.
Introduction
FAMILY TREE OF THE DOMAINE
Francois Georges Louis CAZILHAC m Constance PECH Celestin Francoise Isadore DELTOUR m Marie Jeanne CORTIEU
Proprietoire 1886 - 1963 1884 -1966 b 1893 d 1930
Eloi COMMERES m Anna SOULE
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Germaine Simone CAZILHAC m Albert Francoise DELTOUR m Paulette Jeanne COMMERES
b 27.03.1917 d 03.07.2010 10.04.37 b 20.04.1914 d 26.09.1978 20.06.75 b17.08.25 d ?
divorced 1975* Cultivateur Re-married Victorien BOYRIE
b 1920 d 2002
As Germaine had no children the house was inherited by the Ledogar family who
were related to her via her mother. Simone's gravestone, shown below shares a
space with Maurice Wargnies, perhaps she was re-married or formed another
relationship
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*In France, divorce by mutual consent was introduced by the law of 11 July 1975, by the then president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Bold indicates the owners of the Domaine
We are currently researching the owners of the Domaine. Built in approximately 1880, probably by the father of Francoise Cazilhac it was inherited by his only child, Germaine Simone Cazilhac. We know that Germaine was born in 1917, and that she was related, through her mother, to the Ledogar family who lived with her in the house when her parents died and who, from the 1960's raised their children here. The Ledogars owned and managed vineyards and used the massive barns, at the back of the house, to process the grapes as had Germaine's father. Ledogars still own vineyards and produce wine today.
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When renovating walls in the entrance to the gite, in the garage, I came upon a bricked up niche, in the niche was part of a rosary wrapped up in pink paper dated July 1883 - I put a photo of this on the village facebook page and Mr Joseph Ledogar came to see it, it obviously meant a lot to him so I gave it to him. He is in the old photo on the right, dated about 1969, holding his son Claude on the back of the donkey whilst Mr Joseph Ledogar senior holds the donkey's bridle.
Three generations of Ledogars
Joseph, Joseph & Claude *
* Joseph Snr is now deceased, Joseph Jnr still lives in the village. Claude runs a successful building business based in the village whilst his cousins still make wine at Domaine Ledogar.
