Tour-Pigeonnier

Tower-dovecote - 18th and 19th centuries - Stone and brick.
Two large dry families shared the windmill, in an area where mills are few compared to the amount of land planted with vines. In the past, bread production covered eight times as much land as vineyards. Wingless mill towers still stand amidst the vineyards, sometimes even on wine bottle labels. Laurent, the miller, used the mill for one family. Blanchet ran it for another. In 1874, the mill's stones were used to build the dovecote tower, part of a vast farm that grew steadily, with a hay barn, stables, a wine storehouse, corner dovecote towers, covered with slates in the 19th century, a porch-tower, marking the main entrance to the square courtyard, and a gallery-hangar, used to house tools...