Saint-Laurent - The Mills
the villas
(details) Villa "Les Costils" at the foot of the cliff,
By the sea in the middle of the cabins, the pension "Les Flots"
(details) Villa "Les Costils"
(details) the villa "les Tilleuls", opposite the villa St-Hubert, on the other side of the valley
(details) The Lindens - (Séguy-Fabre)
(details) On the left "Les Flots", on the right Les Sables d'Or
(details)Overview around 1903
(details) This stream comes from the villa of the mills. In the center the villa "Les Roseaux"
(details) villa Marie-Thérèse
Share of the Société Foncière Saint Laurent Plage d'Or (Calvados), dated 1891
(details) On the left the Hôtel de la Plage. On the right, the Hubert carpentry. The beach villa on the right is the "Sainte-Cécile"
Overview
West side
On the left, ruin of the Carteret mill, fed by the springs on the east bank of the valley,
On the right the villa "Jeane-d'Arc"
(details) Above on the left the Beauséjour villa, on the right the St Hubert villa
(details) villas Beauséjour and St-Hubert
(details) Villa Suzette, facing the Mills
(details) villa Suzette
(details) The greenhouse of the villa "Les Moulins", taken from the waterfall
(details)Villa les Tamaris
(details) Schneegans House, refugees with their children during the winter of 1940
(details) The Schneegans, back after the war, their house has disappeared
(details) the villas "Les Roseaux" and "Jeanne d'Arc"
(details) villas Amélie, Joan of Arc, and Le Ruisseau
(details) On the left "Les Sables d'Or", in the center "Les Costils"
(details)Moulin and villa Carteret
(details) Villa Carteret "Joan of Arc"
(details) On the left the villa "Tranquille" and on its right the villa "Jeanne d'Arc". Above the latter, a small farm that will become the villa "Marie-Thérèse"
(details)Gardens of Villa Carteret
(details)Japanese garden behind the Carteret mill
(details)The transformed Carteret mill
(details) "La Fresnaye"
After the war
The villa "Les Moulins"
(Benoist-Bourdoux family)
On March 23, 1883, Félix Bourdoux, a resident of Paris, bought two old wheat mills in Saint-Laurent sur Mer, at the bottom of the village, 300 meters from the beach to make it a resort for his family on the Normandy coast. The wheel of the "mill above" fed by the water of the bief, worked until the war. He set up, in the years that followed, "the mill below" by leaning against the old part (probably from the 16th century) a villa of the type of those then being built on the coast, made of stone with pink brick equipment, flanked by two turrets, one of which was destroyed during the war.
This property remains one of the few witnesses of the villas of the interwar period, where the beach of Les Sables d'Or had become fashionable.
Generations follow one another, with the same passion for garden roses whose hill was covered until the war, plantations and fishing on the nearby beach. It was the time when everyone knew each other between the top of the village and the bottom by the sea.
The villa of the "Moulins", built around an old water mill.
