The Loire Valley and especially Blois
Today we visited the town of Zurrieq which has four 18th century windmills. The best preserved is Xarolla which has sails and still works, while the others, Marmara, Qaret (2 photos, taken from the back and front) and Salib only have the base and tower left. We didn’t get as far as Salib. Aujourd’hui nous avons …
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From afar, this looked like just an Australian windmill, but it’s not. Commercialised by Auguste Bollée at the end of the 19th century, according to the invention of Ernest-Sylvain Bollée (1814-1891) patented in 1868, the Éolienne Bollée is an unusual wind turbine, unique for having a stator and a rotor, like a water turbine A further patent dated 1885 differed mainly in …
We stopped at our favourite post mill in Bléré yesterday (see below) and I saw this little winegrower’s hut opposite that I had never noticed. I love the wine trained in the shape of a wreath – not to mention the wind vane! Nous nous sommes arrêtés hier à notre moulin cavier préféré à Bléré …
Albert Thouvin is reconstructing this old windmill outside Souvigny-en-Soulogne entirely at his own expense, following its destruction in 1930, doing a lot of the work himself and raising money by holding jazz concerts. What a pity we missed the one on 24th June! Albert Thouvin rénove à ses propres frais ce vieux moulin à Souvigny-en-Soulogne, détruit …
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