Manors in Upper Normandy, 12th to 14th centuries. A survey located 25 manors of the period, most of them considerably modified inside and some of them now completely destroyed. The civil manors are generally to be found near a church, the chapel of the squire of the manor, whilst ecclesiastical ones are isolated in the middle of their grounds. Traces of the environment sometimes survive : a moat, a pigeon-tower, one or two chapels and the remains of a tithe barn. The manor-house is generally a two storey rectangular construction, with two gables and walls a meter thick, sometimes buttressed. Some have cellars, but no trace of vaulting has been identified. On the upper floor, where one might expects to find a hall and a bed room, only one manor-house had traces of a partition wall. Either these partitions were of wood, or else the upper floor was composed of only one room. The original chimney is situated on one of the long walls, with an outside shaft. The original staircase was presumably of wood and was situated outside the building : it is only traceable by a door on the upper floor which gives outside. The windows on the ground floor are small and not very numerous ; on the upper floor the windows opened in the wall opposite the chimney, are more numerous and larger.

Newly-found paintings by Isaac Moillon. The work of Isaac Moillon, the parisian painter, is emerging since about a quarter of a century. Increasing discoveries during the recent years allow to start to outline the original personality of this artist. His uncommon style, still strongly marked by mannerism, is characterized by a very distinctive sense of composition as regards both religious and secular painting. New works have recently been identified in Burgundy, Auvergne and Limousin.

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La vie et l'œuvre de Nicolas Chevillard, peintre de Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire) sont fort mal documentées. Ce que l'on en sait tient en peu de lignes : il est taxé de 40 livres à Mâcon en 1660 et reçoit 33 livres de la ville "pour avoir fait, en grand volume, le portrait de Son Altesse Sérénissime Mons. Le Prince, gouverneur de Bourgogne, qui est joinct à ceux de ses prédécesseurs audit gouvernement, en la salle de l'hostel commun de la ville de Macon". On ignore ce qu'il est advenu de ce tableau,..

A Vic-sur-Cère, petit bourg du Cantal, l’hôtel du Pont et du Parc abrite au rez-de-chaussée une salle de restaurant dont les quatre murs sont ornés de dix-sept peintures d’un caractère peu ou prou monumental. Leur hauteur est d’environ 1,50 m, leur largeur variant de 0,6 à 3,5 m. Quatorze d’entre elles ont été exécutées par Antoine Cayrol entre 1909 et 1914, les trois dernières par son petit-fils, Roger Cayrol, en 1954.Le grand-père, Antoine, né en 1864, est élevé à Paris. Après son service m..