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Palais Idéal: The palace that was built by a postman

Palais Idéal: The palace that was built by a postman

Thursday, 2 May 2013 Sights & smells By Dom Stapleton

Where I live, the only things left behind by the local postmen are letters for the person who used to live in my flat and the odd discarded rubber band. But in Hauterives, France, the local postman left a little more than that… Ferdinand Cheval left an entire palace, made from stones he’d picked up on his daily mail round!

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