Did you ask the CADASTRE ,a service in your Town hall ,where they have every "Buying and selling " recorded there (sorry for my English, I hope you will understand!!!... )
French "notaires" are officers of the State and are responsible for the State getting its cut of the price you pay for a property. As such, they often have these metal plaques on display, featuring the imperial eagle dating from Napoleonic times. The plaques symbolise the might and majesty of the State.But this is only guesswork.@@richaelblewett5068
Love your mood and contain. The golden metal objects are " plaques de notaires" dating from the first empire ( 1804/1814). A true treasure ( each one could cost around 800 €).
I’m thinking what a lot of others seem to be thinking, that 1850 might be an official date when a lot of renovations were done and registered, but the things you’re uncovering sure look more 18th century - loving it! :)
The first floor would originally have been the salon and public entertaining space. So the "bedroom" you are in would have previously been a sitting room or similar
@thhseeking that's what we were thinking too... Plus there are two very old looking salons on the ground floor that seem perfect for entertaining guests.
@@thhseeking In many Italian villas, the "camera nobile" or "piano nobile" was often on the first floor (one floor up from the ground floor). It makes sense as only prestigious guests would be invited up to the next floor.
@@ciaobella8963I'm trying to imagine women with their dresses big enough to hide a wide-screen TV under negotiating the stairs unless the said house had wide ones :P The European townhouses that I know had fairly narrow stairs. The exact date of construction of the house would help.
The wooden item is to spin yarn or thread for sewing, knitting, crochet, etc. as for the wall paper, what you are seeing is actually 2 papers. The vertical stripe is applied like a border over the paper under it to make it symmetrical, or hide a seam, something like that.
Yes, I think the wooden wheel is a drop spindle for making thread from wool or flax, altho w/out the top hook (it looks broken off to me), I can’t be sure. 🤷♀️😄
Hi there, we live in northern France and from your video I can see we share some of the same features and details in our house. We too have the same panelling on the walls, the thin doors, the same door openings, the same fireplace. Our house is called a maison langere and was once a farm house. We are lucky enough to know a little of its history but more importantly the date it was built. 1877. I hope you manage to learn lots of information when you meet the former owners. It is so interesting to find out about the history that surrounds us.
Very cool! It is so interesting learning about all of the history - it's amazing how it's all around us, just still there, kind of hiding in plain sight. That's one of the things that drew us to France. Thanks so much for watching! 😊
Having lived in a renovated pre-medieval stone house in Italy, my spidey sense from your attic is that this house is much older than the 18th century. I bet you can and will find traces that go back to the 13th century (the original oldest part of the house).
@@AustintoAmboise The village existed long before the Château d'Amboise was built in the 15th century. And the historical center is always where the original and oldest houses are located.
Love the mysterious reveals😂. I am leaning towards the wallpaper being very early 1800s by the style and colors. Maybe earlier. Suppose it could have been old paper ,used later 🤔. It is beautiful. Really nice finding wood paneling. I have heard on other French chateau channels, that door in the bed alcove was a modesty door, for a servant/ladies maid, to enter thru and remove the chamber pot. As a fellow American, your manners and the way you do things are quite familiar and fun. Good job. Have fun finding more mystery spaces.
So glad you're enjoying our antics! 😄 Thanks for watching. I've heard about the modesty door too, I think it was Stephanie on the Chateau Diaries, but I thought she said it was for the lady to be able to change clothes in the privacy of her dressing room and then slip into bed? The chamber pot removal idea maybe makes more sense though. The funny thing is I have been trying to research the purpose of those doors and cannot find any info at all about them online. So very mysterious!!
Yes, we keep finding more and more interesting things. It's even more awesome than we realized when we bought it! We feel incredibly lucky to get to live in it. Thanks for watching!
Please get in touch with Stephanie Jarvis from The Chateau Diaries. She and her fiancée, Philip are pretty much experts on antique wallpaper. I'm sure she'd be delighted to share her knowledge. She has many friends who speak English and own chateaux. They are all very nice.
I'm guessing that entire wall of cabinets is an addition. I would be willing to bet it was added to cover up the old piping you found inside for the heating system. I'm sure that house didn't start out with any kind of central heating. It was definitely either woodburning fireplaces or coal.
Yes it's weird to us too, but fashions always change. When they put the wallpaper up, the paneling might have been seen as super outdated and out of style. Thanks for watching!
OMG, the boiserie is an AMAZING find! Judging from the underside structure of the roof in you last video, I am thinking most definitely older than 19th century. Loving your videos... Hands down better than nearly all of the 'chateau' vlogs on YT. I am excited for you and your adventure. A tad bit envious too.
Wow that's very kind of you to say! Well we have learned a ton from watching all of the other chateau channels, and we owe them a lot. And now we're just making videos that we would want to watch without fast-forwarding. We're so glad you enjoy watching them too! 😊
The fireplace is a common 19th century model, although the trumeau with its pilasters is interesting. To me the trumeau is from the first half of the 19th century, possibly older (1780's because it's neoclassical). The most interesting feature is the (probably) mercury mirror with a typical late 18th century framing, but it may not be original to the room because of a slight mismatch in proportions with the trumeau and mantlepiece. The parquet floor is a typical 19th century "point de Hongrie" design, common in French bourgeois dwellings of that era.
Hi, This room has a lot of potential ! Already Imagine the looks when all is fixed up. In a old boudoir style with real inbuild baldakine above the bed. The small door beside the bed might used by servants to take the night potty from the room. Definately a historic thing thats a bonus to the house. Maybe could start to let restore the bonus painting from above the door by a professional! The government comunity has specialists and registers to go and look to find out more of the history of the house and city. Looking foreward to see whats more to find in the house. Dont rush cleaning, some parts can be damaged irreversable.🤔 Sayonara 👋😄
Like many commenters, I think the 1850s date is when the later stages of renovations were made. There are likely much older parts of that house, especially in the attic and cellar. Possibly the inner parts of the outer walls. The front and back walls might have been resurfaced on the outside to bring them "up-to-date". It'll be fun to follow your exploration :) I picked up a lot of clues on relative dating of walls from watching Time Team and Phil Harding :P
Definitely late 1700’s. I think the old paneling, floors and transom paints are a shout out to that era. Either way it is a really cool room. The nook/alcove almost looks like there may be panels under the wallpaper.
Wow that real wood paneling will be amazing once cleaned up! Those two oval plaques are intriguing. I possess something similar that I obtained in an auction box lot and have been trying to figure it out for a while. I always suspected my piece could have been a decorative panel on the front of cabinet perhaps or attached to the outside of a building. My metal piece has lions rampart or similar creatures and may be bronze. It has holes where it was at one time attached to something. I also thought chimney flue cover but those are round usually. I hope someone from your area may be familiar with their function.
It seems crazy, but we have to remember that fashions always change. When they put the wallpaper up, the paneling might have been seen as super outdated and out of style. Thanks for watching!
There were oftentime closets in the bed nooks at the head of the bed too .. looking at your bed nook it looks like that there is a possibility of something behind it .. :/ also wondered if the same key would of been used for the hidden wall closets? Perhaps not but what a pain in the behind having loads of different ones for them, though I guess if the one person or the main person the bedroom was assigned to managed the key it probably wouldn’t of been a big deal … love things like this guys! ❤ great job
Are you talking about the odd dark marks on the wall? That is actually dirt/staining on the wallpaper from a bookshelf that had been hanging there for a long time. As for the keys, we think each closet has a separate key, as crazy as that sounds. The two closets on either side of the one we broke open each have their own key that was left inside the lock for us. But maybe they are all copies of the same key? We haven't checked to see. Thanks for watching!
Ok, extremely wild guess...some of the walls in the bedroom appear to be very thin. It's almost as though someone decided to redesign the interior of the house. It may be that the original house is the exterior and most of the interior has been revamped to meet the era's fashion or the family's needs. Electricity and plumbing are the most modern, but you might have numerous changes which create a hodgepodge of eras that make no cohesive sense. The least likely changes would be made to solid walls and floors under the parquet. If your government offices keep those kinds of records, that would be the place to start. That or the local historical society. They may not have your particular house, but perhaps a neighbor's house with similar structure?
That room that now is the bathroom could have been a valet’s room. But it also could have been sort of a washing room. I think the house is about 1825 or so but could be a remodel of an older house.
The Eagle and the Bees are the emblems of Napoleon (see the "N" in the oval). It doesn't mean that Napoleon lived here, more likely that the first owners were admirers or loyal to the Emperor 🙂
I agree with Janescott4574, late 17 or early 18, please don't remove anything without study. Anyway, I love your blog! and very welcome to Europe (I'm in Belgium, but I Love Amboise! and all of the Loire region)
Thanks so much for watching! We're only removing things that are clearly not original to the house. We're very interested in keeping the oldest stuff. Thanks so much for watching and for the welcome! 😊
Not to difficult to find your house on a modern plan (because of the hobbit house). Then, looking at the Cadastre napoléonien, in the archives of Indre-et-Loire, established in 1833 - Section A1, première et deuxième parties 6NUM10/003/001Archives d'Indre-et-Loire - you can google that. There is definitevely a building at this place, at that time. But what's on the plan looks relatively different to what it is today. This section of the Rue Rabelais, was called rue des Fabriques, and the small street in front of your house was called Rue des Goullus.
Thanks so much for sharing this info! We took a look at the old cadastre & it’s very interesting. We hadn’t realized how the river used to flow through this part of town, and that there was an industrial dock area there, in what is now a parking area, so that was very cool to see.
@@AustintoAmboise The current state of the house could be dating from the years 1880s. In the archives there are documents called - Matrice des propriétés bâties ; augmentations et diminutions, 1883-1891 ; - They trace the demands for the buildings modifications. Based on the parcel number (597), on page 156, we see demands for significant changes on your house. The owner at that time was someone working in the tanning industry. It looks like workshops and a steam machine were his belongings at the end of Rue Chaptal.
Mr Hercule Dumée, the owner in the 1860S, was a deputy to the mayor of Amboise ; and even mayor temporarily in 1865. Mr Felix Faure (1841-1899), future president of the french republic, made his apprenticeship in these years at the tannery of Mr Dumée in Amboise. The tannery was liquidated in the early years 1910s.
These must be ,what we call in French a "Blason "" to hang on outside doors ,Or to show from which NOBLE family ,you are from ,,,OR ,the work you are doing ( notary ,etc...), I think ...
Based on the boiserie I'd guess before 1830, and perhaps 50 years further back than that.
Did you ask the CADASTRE ,a service in your Town hall ,where they have every "Buying and selling " recorded there (sorry for my English, I hope you will understand!!!... )
looks like a drapery tie back ! the wood behind the mirror is called a cleet the mirror hangs on. love the wood paneling! Yay score!
Yep exactly.
The two imperial plaques suggest that the house may have belonged to a notary and included his office.
What are the clues, if you'd be so kind?
French "notaires" are officers of the State and are responsible for the State getting its cut of the price you pay for a property. As such, they often have these metal plaques on display, featuring the imperial eagle dating from Napoleonic times. The plaques symbolise the might and majesty of the State.But this is only guesswork.@@richaelblewett5068
I am not sure : there is no trace of any office on them, just the Imperial Eagle and the Bees of Napoleon, and his initial N.
I fully agree : I think they are from Second French Empire (1852-1870), Napoléon III being the emperor.
Patrick is quite the sleuth! I just love your videos. We can all live vicariously thru you both ❤
So happy you're enjoying our antics! Thanks so much for following along. 😊
Very cool wallpaper. Fun mystery behind cabinet door. Wood paneling!
Love your mood and contain. The golden metal objects are " plaques de notaires" dating from the first empire ( 1804/1814). A true treasure ( each one could cost around 800 €).
Amazing. Merci!
It's indeed a "plaque de notaire" but from the 2nd empire (1852-1870). One, exactly the same was sold at an auction in 2021 for 1000 €.
@@gsbeak thanks a lot for your correction.
Is that a bullet hole in the second plaque you show us!? I just found your channel yesterday and I’m enjoying every video.
Those floors, beautiful
Right?! They're in amazing condition - kind of surprised about that. Thanks for watching!
I’m thinking what a lot of others seem to be thinking, that 1850 might be an official date when a lot of renovations were done and registered, but the things you’re uncovering sure look more 18th century - loving it! :)
Good point! The earliest stuff might not have been documented as well. We can't wait to talk to the family that lived here!
The first floor would originally have been the salon and public entertaining space. So the "bedroom" you are in would have previously been a sitting room or similar
Wouldn't that be on the ground floor, rather than making your guests traipse up the stairs?
@thhseeking that's what we were thinking too... Plus there are two very old looking salons on the ground floor that seem perfect for entertaining guests.
@@thhseeking In many Italian villas, the "camera nobile" or "piano nobile" was often on the first floor (one floor up from the ground floor). It makes sense as only prestigious guests would be invited up to the next floor.
Ah, that makes sense. Interesting!
@@ciaobella8963I'm trying to imagine women with their dresses big enough to hide a wide-screen TV under negotiating the stairs unless the said house had wide ones :P The European townhouses that I know had fairly narrow stairs. The exact date of construction of the house would help.
I’d pull off the paper and put the moldings so common there and make the room Beautiful! Ooh Layla!
Yes, so happy that paneling was hiding under there!
No way is that 1850! Much earlier mid to late 1700’s is my guess.
The wooden item is to spin yarn or thread for sewing, knitting, crochet, etc. as for the wall paper, what you are seeing is actually 2 papers. The vertical stripe is applied like a border over the paper under it to make it symmetrical, or hide a seam, something like that.
Yes, I think the wooden wheel is a drop spindle for making thread from wool or flax, altho w/out the top hook (it looks broken off to me), I can’t be sure. 🤷♀️😄
The spindle looks like a drop spindle, for spinning yarn. That is really cool!!
I believe that you are right.
I think you are right as well.
Very cool! Thanks for identifying it.
Yes. I think that is correct too.
Such gorgeous mysteries. Can’t wait till you visit with the past owners and uncover the stories. Cheers & Happy Blessed Easter.
We can't wait either! Merci beaucoup!
Hi there, we live in northern France and from your video I can see we share some of the same features and details in our house. We too have the same panelling on the walls, the thin doors, the same door openings, the same fireplace. Our house is called a maison langere and was once a farm house. We are lucky enough to know a little of its history but more importantly the date it was built. 1877. I hope you manage to learn lots of information when you meet the former owners. It is so interesting to find out about the history that surrounds us.
Very cool! It is so interesting learning about all of the history - it's amazing how it's all around us, just still there, kind of hiding in plain sight. That's one of the things that drew us to France. Thanks so much for watching! 😊
That was fun!! What a beautiful home! I’m going to enjoy this channel!
Thanks for coming along! 😊
😍😍😍 🤗That big lamp👌🏻
The floors are gorgeous!
Agreed! Thanks for watching. 🙂
Having lived in a renovated pre-medieval stone house in Italy, my spidey sense from your attic is that this house is much older than the 18th century. I bet you can and will find traces that go back to the 13th century (the original oldest part of the house).
Oooh your spidey sense is intriguing! I hope you're right!
@@AustintoAmboise The village existed long before the Château d'Amboise was built in the 15th century. And the historical center is always where the original and oldest houses are located.
Love the mysterious reveals😂. I am leaning towards the wallpaper being very early 1800s by the style and colors. Maybe earlier. Suppose it could have been old paper ,used later 🤔. It is beautiful. Really nice finding wood paneling. I have heard on other French chateau channels, that door in the bed alcove was a modesty door, for a servant/ladies maid, to enter thru and remove the chamber pot. As a fellow American, your manners and the way you do things are quite familiar and fun. Good job. Have fun finding more mystery spaces.
So glad you're enjoying our antics! 😄 Thanks for watching. I've heard about the modesty door too, I think it was Stephanie on the Chateau Diaries, but I thought she said it was for the lady to be able to change clothes in the privacy of her dressing room and then slip into bed? The chamber pot removal idea maybe makes more sense though. The funny thing is I have been trying to research the purpose of those doors and cannot find any info at all about them online. So very mysterious!!
LOVE the bed alcove concept! So cozy!
It is! Sleeping in one makes you feel protected and cozy. Apparently it helped with keeping warm as well, back when they had no heating.
@@AustintoAmboise OH! That makes so much sense! Love that too! Thanks for sharing! I need to do a deep dive! 🙂
Wow to máte ale zajímavý dům.
Yes, we keep finding more and more interesting things. It's even more awesome than we realized when we bought it! We feel incredibly lucky to get to live in it. Thanks for watching!
Please get in touch with Stephanie Jarvis from The Chateau Diaries. She and her fiancée, Philip are pretty much experts on antique wallpaper. I'm sure she'd be delighted to share her knowledge. She has many friends who speak English and own chateaux. They are all very nice.
We're big fans of Stephanie and Philip, of course! 🙂 Good idea to ask them about the wallpaper. We'll try to send them some pics.
I'm guessing that entire wall of cabinets is an addition. I would be willing to bet it was added to cover up the old piping you found inside for the heating system. I'm sure that house didn't start out with any kind of central heating. It was definitely either woodburning fireplaces or coal.
Weird that someone some when thought the room looked better with wallpaper than that beautiful paneling.
Yes it's weird to us too, but fashions always change. When they put the wallpaper up, the paneling might have been seen as super outdated and out of style. Thanks for watching!
Kinda scary what your going to find in these old buildings, but interesting and intriguing at the same time. 1800’s
OMG, the boiserie is an AMAZING find!
Judging from the underside structure of the roof in you last video, I am thinking most definitely older than 19th century.
Loving your videos... Hands down better than nearly all of the 'chateau' vlogs on YT. I am excited for you and your adventure. A tad bit envious too.
Wow that's very kind of you to say! Well we have learned a ton from watching all of the other chateau channels, and we owe them a lot. And now we're just making videos that we would want to watch without fast-forwarding. We're so glad you enjoy watching them too! 😊
I agree with the comment about it being a living room ❤
Hmmm... It seems strange that they'd have that upstairs though... And there are two salons downstairs.
I expect the room didn't have the closets originally, since clothes were fewer and usually folded and kept in an armoire in the 17th and 18th century.
Yes, I recently read that the clothes hanger wasn't invented until the 1860s. That's so wild.
Hello from PEI Canada
I do like your videos, they are full of history and humour
Glad you enjoy them! Thanks so much for watching.
We visited Amboise in 2016 and loved the city. Can’t wait to follow your reno. Best wishes from Pittsburgh.
It's a lovely city. Thanks so much for following! 😊
What fun!
Thanks for watching!
Bonsoir from Liberty County Texas ! Looking foreward to discovering the secrets of your new home !
Howdy! 🤠 Thanks for following along!
Fascinating! Love that paneling!
Us too! So excited about it. Thanks for watching!
The fireplace is a common 19th century model, although the trumeau with its pilasters is interesting. To me the trumeau is from the first half of the 19th century, possibly older (1780's because it's neoclassical). The most interesting feature is the (probably) mercury mirror with a typical late 18th century framing, but it may not be original to the room because of a slight mismatch in proportions with the trumeau and mantlepiece. The parquet floor is a typical 19th century "point de Hongrie" design, common in French bourgeois dwellings of that era.
Thanks so much for all of this info! Very interesting. 🙂
Thank you for sharing the interesting aspects of your house!
Thanks for watching!
I think the round object you found might be a spindle whorl.
Hmmm... Could be...
Hi,
This room has a lot of potential !
Already Imagine the looks when all is fixed up.
In a old boudoir style with real inbuild baldakine above the bed.
The small door beside the bed might used by servants to take the night potty from the room.
Definately a historic thing thats a bonus to the house.
Maybe could start to let restore the bonus painting from above the door by a professional!
The government comunity has specialists and registers to go and look to find out more of the history of the house and city.
Looking foreward to see whats more to find in the house.
Dont rush cleaning, some parts can be damaged irreversable.🤔
Sayonara 👋😄
Like many commenters, I think the 1850s date is when the later stages of renovations were made. There are likely much older parts of that house, especially in the attic and cellar. Possibly the inner parts of the outer walls. The front and back walls might have been resurfaced on the outside to bring them "up-to-date". It'll be fun to follow your exploration :) I picked up a lot of clues on relative dating of walls from watching Time Team and Phil Harding :P
Thanks for following along!
Definitely late 1700’s. I think the old paneling, floors and transom paints are a shout out to that era. Either way it is a really cool room. The nook/alcove almost looks like there may be panels under the wallpaper.
We hope there is more paneling! Thanks for watching.
The method to hang the mirror is probably original, likely a french cleat. The wooden wheel might well be a curtain tieback
Interesting - it seems like a poorly done addition. But it's hard to tell. Thanks so much for watching!
Wow that real wood paneling will be amazing once cleaned up!
Those two oval plaques are intriguing. I possess something similar that I obtained in an auction box lot and have been trying to figure it out for a while. I always suspected my piece could have been a decorative panel on the front of cabinet perhaps or attached to the outside of a building. My metal piece has lions rampart or similar creatures and may be bronze. It has holes where it was at one time attached to something.
I also thought chimney flue cover but those are round usually.
I hope someone from your area may be familiar with their function.
Good luck figuring out your treasures! Thanks for watching.
the wheel thing is a curtain tie back i think you have them on each side off a curtain
Could be, but the post it's attached to doesn't look quite right for that...
Bonsoir ,ce sont des plaques d' huissier de justice d'époque empire ,que l'ont placé sur la façade de l'immeuble
Very interesting - thank you for the information!
Vous êtes sûr ? À part l'Aigle impériale, les abeilles et l'initiale de Napoléon, rien n'indique une quelconque profession.
@@AustintoAmboise Bonjour voici vos fameuses plaques 2 nd empire de notaire 1852-1870 ekladata.com/LUMWUfzt64SSePjVyEhHfRZqgq0.jpg
Wow they wallpapered over paneling...what were they thinking?
It seems crazy, but we have to remember that fashions always change. When they put the wallpaper up, the paneling might have been seen as super outdated and out of style. Thanks for watching!
There were oftentime closets in the bed nooks at the head of the bed too .. looking at your bed nook it looks like that there is a possibility of something behind it .. :/ also wondered if the same key would of been used for the hidden wall closets? Perhaps not but what a pain in the behind having loads of different ones for them, though I guess if the one person or the main person the bedroom was assigned to managed the key it probably wouldn’t of been a big deal … love things like this guys! ❤ great job
Are you talking about the odd dark marks on the wall? That is actually dirt/staining on the wallpaper from a bookshelf that had been hanging there for a long time. As for the keys, we think each closet has a separate key, as crazy as that sounds. The two closets on either side of the one we broke open each have their own key that was left inside the lock for us. But maybe they are all copies of the same key? We haven't checked to see. Thanks for watching!
Good luck and have fun
Merci beaucoup!
So interesting -love watching😊
Glad you think so! Thanks for watching.
le papier peint est typique napoléon 3
How interesting!
facinating video
Glad you think so! 😊 Thanks for watching.
Ok, extremely wild guess...some of the walls in the bedroom appear to be very thin. It's almost as though someone decided to redesign the interior of the house. It may be that the original house is the exterior and most of the interior has been revamped to meet the era's fashion or the family's needs. Electricity and plumbing are the most modern, but you might have numerous changes which create a hodgepodge of eras that make no cohesive sense.
The least likely changes would be made to solid walls and floors under the parquet. If your government offices keep those kinds of records, that would be the place to start. That or the local historical society. They may not have your particular house, but perhaps a neighbor's house with similar structure?
This junk journal artist is 🤤
That room that now is the bathroom could have been a valet’s room. But it also could have been sort of a washing room. I think the house is about 1825 or so but could be a remodel of an older house.
Thanks for watching and posting your thoughts!
The Eagle and the Bees are the emblems of Napoleon (see the "N" in the oval). It doesn't mean that Napoleon lived here, more likely that the first owners were admirers or loyal to the Emperor 🙂
I agree with Janescott4574, late 17 or early 18, please don't remove anything without study. Anyway, I love your blog! and very welcome to Europe (I'm in Belgium, but I Love Amboise! and all of the Loire region)
Thanks so much for watching! We're only removing things that are clearly not original to the house. We're very interested in keeping the oldest stuff. Thanks so much for watching and for the welcome! 😊
I think the object you found might be a spindle whorle.
Coat of Arms?
Not to difficult to find your house on a modern plan (because of the hobbit house).
Then, looking at the Cadastre napoléonien, in the archives of Indre-et-Loire, established in 1833
- Section A1, première et deuxième parties 6NUM10/003/001Archives d'Indre-et-Loire - you can google that.
There is definitevely a building at this place, at that time. But what's on the plan looks relatively different to what it is today. This section of the Rue Rabelais, was called rue des Fabriques, and the small street in front of your house was called Rue des Goullus.
Thanks so much for sharing this info! We took a look at the old cadastre & it’s very interesting. We hadn’t realized how the river used to flow through this part of town, and that there was an industrial dock area there, in what is now a parking area, so that was very cool to see.
@@AustintoAmboise The current state of the house could be dating from the years 1880s. In the archives there are documents called - Matrice des propriétés bâties ; augmentations et diminutions, 1883-1891 ; - They trace the demands for the buildings modifications. Based on the parcel number (597), on page 156, we see demands for significant changes on your house. The owner at that time was someone working in the tanning industry. It looks like workshops and a steam machine were his belongings at the end of Rue Chaptal.
Mr Hercule Dumée, the owner in the 1860S, was a deputy to the mayor of Amboise ; and even mayor temporarily in 1865. Mr Felix Faure (1841-1899), future president of the french republic, made his apprenticeship in these years at the tannery of Mr Dumée in Amboise. The tannery was liquidated in the early years 1910s.
Wow! Thanks again for all of this info you're digging up.
To bad there wasn't a time capsule.
First empire.
I think it's from 1700's that house is.
Those bed nooks are horrible little confined spaces!
We find them quite cozy - they're really not very confining, being open on one side. Thanks for watching!
These must be ,what we call in French a "Blason "" to hang on outside doors ,Or to show from which NOBLE family ,you are from ,,,OR ,the work you are doing ( notary ,etc...), I think ...
Not RE-la-ter, it's REAL-ter. (Realtor)