As you can see, this is a very different windmill from the post mills we have in the Loire. Comme vous pouvez voir, ce moulin est très différent des moulins cavier qu’on trouve partout dans la vallée de la Loire.
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The Post Mill – Le moulin cavier
I have already photographed the Saint-Jacques Windmill from the bike path but had never seen it from the highway. It is an Angevin-type cavier or post mill, highly recognisable due to its circular stone building surmounted by a wooden cone supporting a windshaft or hucherolle to which the sails are attached. Movement is transmitted through the cone to millstones …