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Five Choses to Know about... Gilles Dumas, the Mayor of Fourques

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1. He built a Romanesque abbey Gilles Dumas, the mayor of Fourques, is "loveful" of Romanesque art. To the point of building himself a Romanesque chapel 12 meters long by 5.50 from A to Z without any outside help. "I took 30 years to do it, I finished it a decade ago," he says. "The architect Fernand Pouillon wrote a book called "The Wild Stones", in which he explains how the Thoronet Abbey was built. The reading of this book was a revelation. I…
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1. He built a Romanesque abbey Gilles Dumas, the mayor of Fourques, is "loveful" of Romanesque art. To the point of building himself a Romanesque chapel 12 meters long by 5.50 from A to Z without any outside help. "I took 30 years to do it, I finished it a decade ago," he says. "The architect Fernand Pouillon wrote a book called "The Wild Stones", in which he explains how the Thoronet Abbey was built. The reading of this book was a revelation. I…

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objectifgard.com broke the news in on Sunday, August 17, 2025.
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