It’s a crazy gamble, as it happens every quarter of a century in Rochefort. More than fifty years after the start of the restoration of the Corderie Royale (destroyed by fire in 1944) by Admiral Maurice Dupont and nearly twenty-five years after the launch of the construction site of “L’Hermione”, here is a team of enthusiasts wanting to undertake the reconstruction of the mill used to devastate the Charente in the 19th century.
The work of a visionary engineer, Jean-Baptiste Hubert in 1806, this 30-meter-high windmill provided …
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