Les greniers de Cordon

These are wooden constructions, on stilts, with a large threshold, often two storeys high, close to the house. They go by different names: raccards, mazots, but they all have the same purpose: to protect the family's wealth from the fire.

Built at the front of the house in relation to the prevailing wind, and at a safe distance from the bread oven to protect them from any fire, they were mostly built in fir and dovetailed, with no use of nails or iron, except for the lock on the front door. Stilted to keep out the damp, with a high threshold and often two storeys high, they held the family's wealth! Not the gold and silver, but the important things! Bread when it was baked, cereal flours, pork cured in the chimney and therefore smoked, deeds of sale, purchase, inheritance of land, houses and woods. Passports, if you had one, not to mention the brandy used to "bouchonner" cattle, The famous Sunday best, which was just what was needed to get married.