Exposition - Le bois et l'art du charpentier au XVIIIe siècle

Reconstructions and animations will help you to understand the Mont-Dauphin frameworks, the types of wood, the tools and skills used to build them.
The construction of a stronghold such as Mont-Dauphin required large quantities of wood extracted from the forests around the town. While it is well known that structural timber was important and indispensable, it is less well known that large volumes of wood were also needed to fuel the lime kilns, heat the troops, bake bread and build the water pipes (bourneaux).
The exhibition is divided into three sections:
- the historical part covers the origins of the wood used, its transportation, rendering, sawing and the uses to which it was put;
- the second part uses immersive evocations to show the tools, the solutions used and the intelligence of the craftsman's gesture in 1700;
- finally, the third part provides an insight into the carpenter's art of working with the awkwardly squared timbers of the period.

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