On Monday, August 30, 2021, the 100 new sites that will benefit from a subsidy from the revenues of the Française des Jeux (FDJ) for their renovation as part of the Mission Bern were unveiled from the Château de Marcoussis, in Essonne. This is the 4th edition of the mission to safeguard endangered heritage entrusted by the President of the Republic to TV host Stéphane Bern. Since 2018, 297 sites have been able to receive the necessary subsidies for their safeguarding thanks to this program.
18 emblematic sites from the metropolitan and overseas regions had already been selected in April 2021. These are the places that can be found on the scratch tickets that the FDJ has been offering since August 30. The scratch game, which can win up to 1.5 million euros, is complemented by six Loto draws, scheduled between September 6 and 18. Among all these sites, Sciences and the Future selected 6, which are also places of science.
1. Dumphlun’s farm to Billy Chevannes
Agriculture. It is one of the most important farms in the Nièvre. The building, linked to the castle of the same name, goes through the centuries and has undergone several modernizations, which allows it to be at the cutting edge of technology: it is here that the first steam harvesters in the region are tested. It is also a place of innovation in breeding. But the buildings, abandoned for more than thirty years, need to be renovated before welcoming the public.
Credits: Association for the preservation of Dumphlun and the monuments of Billy-Chevannes / Heritage Foundation
2. The old maternity ward in Mana
Medicine. The house would have been built at the beginning of the 19th century, and would have housed a school before being transformed into maternity in the second part of the 20th century. Today, the building shows a worrying state of disrepair and threatens to collapse, which justifies the implementation of work before its reassignment. The establishment, typical of colonial architecture, will be renovated identically.
Credits: Emilie Wroblewki / Heritage Foundation
3. The Massey Garden Orangery in Tarbes
Botanical. The building was designed by the French botanist Placide Massey (1777-1853). The one who was director of the Versailles vegetable garden aimed to create a large garden and a natural history museum in Tarbes, his birthplace. It was after his death in 1880 that this large-scale greenhouse was built by the municipality. It is divided into three parts: a warm greenhouse, a temperate greenhouse and an orange greenhouse. The restoration work aims to transform the building into a building reserved for the work of gardeners.
Credits: Heritage Foundation
4. The archaeological crypt of Dax
Archeology. Discovered in 1978, these Gallo-Roman remains were identified as being the foundations of a civil basilica, built between the 1st and 2nd century AD Remarkable testimony to the Roman presence in Aquitaine, the audience of the site is modest, however, in part because of the important conservation problems facing the crypt and which should be resolved by the work that will be completed in 2023.
Credits: Municipality of Dax / Heritage Foundation
5. Louis Pasteur’s house in Arbois
Biology. This site was introduced among the “emblematic sites” of the 2021 edition, and appears on some scratch tickets. Louis Pasteur’s summer stays in this Jura house that his parents had acquired, this house has kept scientific devices and books. It is within these walls that the famous scientist refutes the “spontaneous generation”, or the idea according to which life can spring from an inert matter. maintenance and security.
Credits: Jérémy Sezille / Heritage Foundation
6. The Aiglun cave fortress
Geology. This medieval building was built under the cliff of Giet, in the Alpes-Maritimes, at the level of the old border between the kingdom of France and the Duchy of Savoy. This type of constructions under rocks, called troglodytes, is not rare in France, where we find prehistoric troglodyte habitats – in the Dordogne in particular – but also later, as in the Pays de la Loire and occasionally in Provence, such as here. The fortress of Aiglun would however be the largest troglodyte fortress in France: it extends over more than 80 meters in length. The renovations should make it possible to secure visits to this astonishing construction built under the limestone rock.
Credits: Mairie d’Aiglun / Heritage Foundation
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