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	Ferdinand Cheval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferdinand Cheval (1836 - August 19, 1924) was a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building an "Ideal Castle" (French Palais idéal) which is regarded as an extraordinary example of naive art architecture.
		Ferdinand Cheval lived in Châteauneuf-de-Galaure, in the Drôme département of France.
		Cheval bricked the stones together with lime, wire and cement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval (366 words)

	OFF THE MAP . Travelogue . Ferdinand Cheval \| PBS
		For Cheval to trip over a stone as he walked across the steep and rocky terrain was hardly an unusual incident.
		Cheval acquired a wheelbarrow and the two began a long-term and fruitful partnership.
		Cheval altered his plan and instead constructed his "Tomb of Silence and Eternal Rest" in the local cemetery, using his traditional building materials: lime, cement and wire.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/offthemap/html/travelogue_artist_4.htm?true (1069 words)

	Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal
		Cheval was a mailman by day and an architect by night, building his palace of stones and intricately carved concrete with little available light and no assistance from anyone.
		Cheval was as good an amateur poet as he was an amateur sculptor and architect -- the tunnel that runs through the bottom level of the palace, as well as several outer and upper walls, are filled with poems and inscriptions.
		Cheval hoped to be buried here with his wife, but the city forced him to build a separate tomb in the town's consecrated cemetary, minutes from the palace.
	www.unc.edu /~fiore/html/photos/cheval_intro.html (1028 words)

	Le Palais Ideal du Facteur Cheval Postman's Palace
		For Ferdinand Cheval, born one century before the eloquent fl civil rights leader, had one too.
		In fact Cheval himself was often surprised by the forms and images he created, often wondering how he, one without any training whatsoever in the arts, could possibly have been responsible for creating them.
		Not that Cheval used these materials to build his castle - he was ignorant of the rules of architecture and sculpture.
	www.jeremyjosephs.com /postmanspalace.htm (1567 words)

	Ferdinand Cheval, a Drome postman and his Palais Ideal- Francerama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ferdinand Cheval’s round consisted of 32 kilometers a day, often covering broken ground with poor access, steep climbs and a difficult, rocky terrain.
		Although he never quite understood the meaning of his strange visions experienced in what he would refer to as "trance-like state" - he was for a long time haunted by images of a dazzling palace.
		Then one day in 1879 le facteur Cheval, as he was known, tripped on a stone...(which) reactivated his secret dream of building a palace - a fantastic castle.
	www.francerama.com /escapades/ferdinand_cheval/en/index.htm (758 words)

	Dave Saunders - Cheval- The Ideal Palace
		Built single-handedly over a period of 33 years beginning in 1879, by country postman Ferdinand Cheval, The Ideal Palace is one of the world's most astonishing visionary structures.
		Cheval dreamed of a wondrous palace, but was not a builder, so he built nothing.
		Cheval's plan to use the Palace Ideal as his own tomb was apparently thwarted by local regulations.
	pages.istar.ca /~jazzy/cheval.htm (435 words)

	Noise Filter: A labor of longevity.
		Cheval would deliver the mail, marking stones along the way for later pick up.
		Cheval taught himself about the world outside through the pages and pictures in Le Magazin Pittoresque.
		Cheval was incredibly proud of his architectural accomplishment.
	noisefilter.blogspot.com /2006/04/labor-of-longevity.html (1023 words)

	Outsider Art - Nek Chand Edward James & Ferdinand Cheval
		In 1869 Ferdinand Cheval was appointed postman to the village of Hauterives.
		The surrealists of the 40s instantly hailed Cheval as an instinctive master of Art Naif, and Max Ernst honoured the long dead postman with a portrait entitled 'The Postman Cheval'.
		Cheval built his own vault in the parish cemetery and summed up his determination when he said 'Should there exist a more determined man than myself, then let him set to work.'
	www.travelsouk.com /features/outsider-art.htm (644 words)

	Ideële Paleis van Ferdinand Cheval in Hauterives, Frankrijk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Deze toeristen worden aangetrokken door een vreemd, fantastisch en bijna waanzinnig monument, uniek in zijn stijl in Frankrijk en misschien zelfs in de hele wereld, een monument dat de meest gedurfde fantasie tart.
		Het is ontworpen en gebouwd door de postbode Ferdinand Cheval, die met de bouw van zijn "Palais Idéal" een ware titanen arbeid heeft verricht.
		Tijdens zijn dagelijkse 32 Km lange postrondes te voet, verzamelde Cheval stenen, vervoerde die in een mand op zijn rug en maakte daar stapels van 40 Kg van, die hij s'avonds met zijn kruiwagen ging ophalen.
	members.chello.nl /~j.vdkruk/cheval.html (163 words)

	Ferdinand Cheval - Wikipédia
		Cheval passa les vingt premières années à construire les murs extérieurs du Palais idéal.
		Cheval assemblait les pierres avec de la chaux, du mortier et du ciment.
		Ferdinand Cheval acheva la construction du Palais idéal en 1912.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval (993 words)

	The Zymoglyphic Museum Curator's Web Log: Ferdinand Cheval and Le Palais Ideal
		This entry was inspired by the Athanasius Kircher Society's "Visionary Architecture Week" and its coverage of the "Palais Ideal" in southeastern France.
		The palace was built by Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924) over a period of some 33 years and it has been number one on my must-see list for many years.
		The Surrealists were fond of it, especially Andre Breton, who proclaimed Cheval as one of his own.
	zymoglyphic.org /blog/2006/03/ferdinand-cheval-and-le-palais-ideal.html (447 words)

	Watts Towers : Simon Rodia, Facteur Cheval de Los Angeles
		Ferdinand Cheval posa la première pierre de son Palais Idéal en 1879, année de naissance de Sabatino Rodilla.
		Cette année là, Cheval eut 43 ans : Rodia commença le mur d'enceinte de son jardin à 42.
		Rodia considéra son uvre achevé après 33 ans de travail, tout comme le Facteur Cheval.
	www.america-dreamz.com /californie/paysages/l-a/watts_tower.php (1741 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Postman's Palace: Livres en anglais: Adrian Henri,Simon Henwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Henri's text begins with Ferdinand Cheval's dream of a strange palace and details the 33 years of work the postman put into this project.
		The book ends with a grand party at which Cheval finally reveals to his curious neighbors the result of his long years of labor.
		Monsieur Cheval's creation may have inspired wonder in his neighbors, but his story is more likely to provoke yawns from young listeners.
	www.amazon.fr /Postmans-Palace-Adrian-Henri/dp/0689316674 (317 words)

	Accueil Facteur Ferdinand Cheval Drome 26 Guide Histoire Coutumes tourinfos
		Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924), plus connu sous le nom de Facteur Cheval, est entré dans l'histoire de l'Art avec une oeuvre unique, le Palais Idéal à Hauterives.
		Facteur à Hauterives en 1869, Ferdinand Cheval effectue une tournée de 32 km, et c'est à l'âge de 43 ans qu'il commence la construction de son Palais Idéal.
		Le Facteur Cheval n'a pas été enterré dans le tombeau qu'il a creusé au coeur du Palais, mais au cimetière de Hauterives où il construisit, à la fin de sa vie, son oeuvre ultime : "le Tombeau du Silence et du Repos sans fin", qu'il termina à l'âge de 86 ans.
	www.tourinfos.com /fr/r0022/d0026/m0006/p001558.htm (314 words)

	Facteur Cheval's Palais Ideal
		This site is dedicated to Facteur Ferdinand Cheval - an uneducated, unskilled mailman who was moved to build the palace of his childhood imagination after stumbling across one beautiful stone in the road.
		Facteur ("mailman" in French) Cheval is one of the most inspiring people I have discovered and I was fortunate enough to visit his Palais Ideal in the village of Hauterives, France, in May 2001.
		This site is an archive of sorts, as it is the only in-depth resource on Cheval, so high-quality images are beneficial for those who have the capability and interest to view them.
	www.sadtomato.net /cheval/index.html (480 words)

	Toen Simon Rodia antwoord mocht geven op vraag waarom hij toch die volstrekt misplaatste en nutteloze torens in de wijk ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Het paleis is gemaakt door de plaatselijke postbode Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924) met kiezelstenen die hij verzamelde tijdens zijn dagelijkse ronde van 32 kilometer, die hij te voet moest afleggen.
		De eerste 20 jaar van de bouw was Cheval vooral bezig met de buitenmuren.
		De inwoners van het dorp noemde Cheval de dorpsgek, maar door de intellectuelen werd hij wel erkend.
	www.digischool.nl /ckv2/ckv3/tehatexhavo/havo2006/cheval/cheval.htm (403 words)

	Le Palais Idéal de Ferdinand Cheval, facteur de la Drôme- Francerama
		La tournée de Ferdinand Cheval couvrait 32 kilomètres par jour, traversant souvent des endroits défoncés à l'accès difficile, des raidillons épuisants sur un terrain pénible et caillouteux.
		Puis un jour de 1879 le facteur Cheval, ainsi l'appelait-on, trébucha sur une pierre...(qui) raviva son rêve secret : construire un palais - un château fantastique.
		En réalité, bien avant Dali, Cheval a transformé avec passion la matière rétive en formes douces et fluides, tels ses jets d'eau pétrifiés au-dessus d'une fontaine.
	www.francerama.com /escapades/ferdinand_cheval/fr/index.htm (818 words)

	idealpalace
		Born in 1836 Ferdinand Cheval, worked as a postman (facteur in French).
		For most people this would be enough, but not for Ferdinand Cheval, and what he went on to do pushed him to the forefront of what we now know as "naive" or "outsider" art.
		Each day on his round if he saw stone or pebble that caught his eye he would put it to one side and when he had finished work he would take his wheelbarrow and collect them and in April 1879 he started work on his "ideal palace".
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~fhs/idealpalace.htm (243 words)

	Biografie Ferdinand Cheval, constructeur Ideële Paleis
		Sub-pagina van de Homepage "Het Ideële Paleis van Ferdinand Cheval, Hauterives, Frankrijk"
		Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924), geboren in Charmes-sur-l´Herbasse, was eerst enige tijd bakkersknecht en daarna postbode in Hauterives.
		Hoewel hij niet altijd de preciese betekenis en het hoe en waarom van zijn vreemde dromen in een "hogere demensie" begreep, speelde hem lange tijd beelden van een schitterend paleis door het hoofd.
	members.chello.nl /~j.vdkruk/pitext/biogr.html (573 words)

	Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE WEEK: Le Palais Ideal of Postman Cheval
		The extravagantly baroque “Palais Idéal” outside of Valence, Hauterives, France was built single-handedly by the 19th century postman Ferdinand Cheval, who collected its stones during his daily rounds on horseback, and incorporated them into the grand edifice during his afternoons and evenings.
		It is, as one guidebook notes, a “composite style, combining aspects of a Khmer temple, a mosque, a Hindu sanctuary, a feudal castle, a Swiss chalet and the manger in Bethlehem.”
		In Cheval’s own words: “I was the first to agree with those who called me insane; I was not a builder, I had never handle a mason’s trowel; I was not a sculptor.
	www.kirchersociety.org /blog/?p=202 (355 words)

	INMR: January/February 2001 : About Palaces and Horses
		The modern visitor to Ferdinand Cheval’s triumph of will and imagination is quickly awed, bemused and inspired - all at once.
		This whimsical façade at the Palais Idéal is perhaps Cheval’s answer to the great stone statues of Ramses.
		The story begins in the Spring of 1879 as the rural postman Cheval was walking through the fields which still characterize this predominantly agricultural area near Saint Vallier (home to the Ceralep insulator factory).
	www.inmr.com /issues/2001/jan_feb/14_travel/travel.htm (412 words)

	The Daily Changey Thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I was afraid this would get overlooked, buried as it was in the article about the Outsider cake artist from the Midwest.
		This monument was the work of one man, Ferdinand Cheval who was a local postman in the area (Central France) from 1869 until he retired in 1896.
		He started the construction using lime and cement in 1879 working each day after a 20 mile daily post round on foot.
	www.jamierieger.com /daily/daily_062205.htm (99 words)

	Raw Vision
		The term also remains true to the fact that most of the 'landscape dwellers', like Isidore, are completely untrained, may never have picked up a paintbrush, and do not consider their projects to be artistic.
		If Cheval's Palais Ideal is often cited as the precursor to La Maison Picassiette, the highly ordered formal arrangements and symbolic imagery of Isidore's two-dimensional frescos and mosaics are none the less quite different from the free-form sculptural heights of Cheval's 'palace'.
		Yet the two had this much in common: Isidore claimed to be guided by a spirit, and Cheval by a dream, while both were inspired by a chance encounter with an unusual pebble along the roadside.
	www.rawvision.com /back/picassiette/picass.html (1547 words)

	Vienne : Attractions \| Frommers.com
		The Palais du Facteur Cheval, or Palace of the Mailman Cheval (tel.
		04-75-68-81-19), the lifelong work of French postman Ferdinand Cheval, is built of stone and concrete and elaborately decorated, often with clamshells.
		It's an eccentric palace of fantasy and a tribute to the aesthetic value, or mania, of the individual.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/vienne/0627010029.html (540 words)

	AOF: FACTEUR CHEVAL, LE, OU LE SONGE DEVIENT LA REALITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Describes how in 1879, Ferdinand Cheval (1836-1924), the postman of Hauterives, near Vienne, France, came across a strange stone which made him think of exotic landscapes and structures and inspired him to begin a project that would occupy him for the next thirty-three years.
		Singlehandedly, he built his dream palace, Palais idéal, an exotic amalgam of stone, glass pieces, and mosaic fragments in his garden.
		Cheval was a spiritual predecessor of Simon Rodia, who built Watts Towers in Los Angeles.
	www.columbia.edu /~dsm/paf/3144.html (173 words)

	Chico Artoberfest 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ferdinand Cheval was a postman from Hauterives, France who, one day in 1879 while walking his route, tripped on a strange looking stone.
		For the next 33 years he collected small and large stones from along his postal route and used them with cement and lime to build an ornate and surreal castle that he had daydreamed about on those long walks delivering the mail.
		Cheval had no experience building or sculpting and his neighbors quickly labeled him insane, yet he stuck to his vision andâ”working alone for those 33 yearsâ”completed his âfairy-like palace beyond imaginationâ: Le Palais IdÃ©al.
	www.artoberfest.org /component/option,com_extcalendar/Itemid,44/extmode,view/extid,57 (520 words)

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	fundiningout.org /b/ferdinand-cheval.html (156 words)

	Raw Vision
		At the other end you will notice seven figures of classical antiquity which are situated underneath ostriches, flamingoes, geese and eagles.
		The Tomb of the Facteur Cheval, photo: Maggie Jones Maizels.
		Four metres away from the ground parallel to the gallery there is a large terrace 23m long by 4m wide, four spiral staircases lead to, and another two start from the Barbary Tower,, one leading to it, while the other one leads to a little genie who is lighting the world.
	www.rawvision.com /back/cheval/cheval.html (913 words)

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