In nineteenth century, a farmer gradually abandon agriculture to dedicate
himself to the realization of wooden relief map of the city of Lyon,
district by district, and in their slightest details so much that his
visitors from Lyon recognized their buildings.
He
also
started the completion of the most beautiful monuments of the world
(Saint Peter of Rome, the cathedral of Chartres, the Capitol of
Washington and the White House, the city hall of Melbourne etc…)
all this, without leaving his village. Finally, abandoning the
farming works, he will sink his fortune into these realizations.
He exhibited his
work at Ste Consorce from 1895.
When
he died in 1900, the museum went on for some time, passing from hand to
hand, then disappears and much later, partially re-appears one day, at a
secondhand goods dealer in the Ardèche department (France). It was then
bought back and now his work are exhibited Ste Consorce village.
