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French Postman Named Horse Spent 33 Years Building a Castle of Pebbles

Posted by on May 30, 2016


Is This The Temple of Angkor Wat?

The very eccentric Ferdinand Cheval (his real name) built a striking palace entirely made of pebbles he collected on his postal work route. He was a modest 19th-century postman in the town of Hauterives, in the Drome region, a rural and remote part of France.

On a special day in 1837, while walking his 18-mile work trek by foot – not even a bicycle was available to him – he picked up one stone of original shape, and the rest is histo… (View original article)

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