Quelques maisons à Luçay-le-Mâle

It rained late yesterday afternoon and all through the evening and night. A at times it was really coming down. We collected an inch of rainwater in the pluviomètre. Hard rain wasn't predicted, at least not by the weather forecaster on Télématin. Oh well. We have a lot of yard work to do, but it's not fun to do in the rain. Now the ground is really soaked.

I won't yet go back to posting photos I've taken in Provence. Here instead are some houses I thought were interesting in Luçay-le-Mâle, just 10 or 11 miles south of Saint-Aignan (but it's a 30-minute drive on narrow, curvy roads) I went there to see the dentist day before yesterday.

The photos above and below show an especially grand house that is near the mairie (town hall) and the town's monument to the memory of the French soldiers who fought and died in World War I.

Luçay is in the Berry, which was a province of France before the 1789 revolution. Saint-Aignan was in the Berry too, whereas the village we live in, just NW of Saint-Aignan was historically part of the old Touraine province. Each of these old territories had its own architectural styles. If you want to see more local houses that are on the market, look here.

The little poste des pompiers — fire station — is just across the street from the mairie. The mayor seeme proud to tell me that the name of every firefighter who has ever served the town has his name on a big plaque on the side of the building.

This last house is next door the the firestation and directly across the street from the mairie. It's for sale, and the asking price is 79,000 euros ($93,000 U.S.). If you want to see more photos of it, here's a link. It consists of about 800 sq. ft. of finished living space — kitchen, living/dining room, three bedrooms, and one bathroom). There's a big unfinished attic that could be converted into living space as well. It sits on 18,000 sq. ft. (nearly half an acre) of land. There's a good dentist right across the street, behind the mairie, and there's a small supermarket just a block away. I noticed two bakeries and at least one butcher shop in the town, and there's an outdoor market on Fridays.