A Nice House ~ from José Bové, Larzac France

http://josebove.over-blog.com/article-3736814.html

La maison new age de José Bové
par Raphaëlle Bacqué

Le permis de construire n'a pas été facile à obtenir. La première lettre de l'architecte-conseil de la direction de l'équipement a même franchement jeté un froid : "Votre projet ne s'inscrit pas dans l'architecture vernaculaire du Larzac." Il fallait presque tout modifier. (more)

BabelFish (rough) translation:

The house new old of Jose Bove The house new old of Jose Bove by Raphaëlle Bacqué. The permit building was not easy to obtain. The first letter from the consulting architect of the direction of l' equipment even frankly threw a cold: "Your registered project is not in the vernacular architecture of Larzac." It was necessary almost all to modify.
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Rec'd from my email friend Cat in France, who writes "A Nice House:
2008/July/9 learned luddite http://josebove.over-blog.com/article-3736814.html
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For more on Larzac, France: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20041128/ai_n12763431/pg_2

Architecture special: Brilliance on the edge of town
Independent on Sunday, The, Nov 28, 2004

Stretching away to the east is the great wilderness of the Larzac moors, home to ancient fortified farms and villages of the Knights Templar - La Couvertoirade, Sainte Eulalie de Cernon - and the great military training ground of the Larzac (occasionally a tank or truck crawls across the horizon). It was here, 30 years ago, that the first French rock festival, the Aveyron's Woodstock, marked the birth of the protest movement which defeated the army's plan to extend the Larzac base. A year ago, a similar festival reunited 100,000 followers of Bove to the sounds of a raft of like-minded entertainers, from Manu Chao to the Asian Dub Foundation.