about "La Mainguère"
a farm listed on the Napoleonic cadastre
“la Mainguère” is the name of a place that already appears on the Napoleonic cadastre of 1850.
The location of our buildings can be read on this old cadastre, and also the well that already existed.
The farm then developed, the buildings were enlarged to allow both more accommodation (the farmhouse), and more capacity for the animals (the barn).
A rural and peasant heritage
Throughout the 20th century, a peasant family operated the farm, in operation until the end of the 1990s.
Below the farm in 1962
La Mainguère has undergone the progressive densification of the city centers, and the division of the 11 hectares of land that surrounded it, which gradually became constructible.
In 2019, Angèle entrusts us with the keys to her house, which has become too big to maintain.
She tells us the story of her family, her own story, from her youth on the farm, then her active life on the family farm, when the inhabitants came to stock up on milk, eggs, butter,…
The Mainguère farm has always been a warm welcoming place, where hunters, neighbors or the postman on tour stopped regularly to share a soup, a coffee or a glass of cider, or even when cousins and nephews on vacation came to invent lives of adventurers in the sheds and in the attics.
a faithful and respectful renovation, healthy and natural materials
Our history at La Mainguère is much more recent and began with a long period of renovation and refurbishment, and the choice of materials and skilled craftsmen for a faithful renovation, which we have summarised in this document