MOULIN DE MIZANDE (saint simeon) : Homepage bed and breakfast

In about 1850 Mister Cloud, a carpenter, bought the ruined cider press in the village of Saint-Siméon. At the junction of the streams of Presles and Piétré he constructed a cement spillway with vanes and a short canal to bring the water to the wheel of his sawmill, which he raised at right angles to the cider press. It was not until later that he added his house. In 1955, an antique dealer and fresco teacher restored the circular trough, the wooden mechanism, the millstone of the crusher, and the large gear with its box-wood teeth. He proceeded to embellish the place with XVII th century carved wooden panels, alcoves, fireplaces, and staircases. The “Moulin de Mizande” derives its name from the spring that rises in the field, not far from the one that Sanctus Simeon the Stylite created by striking the earth with his stick when he came to preach in Gaul in the IVth century. The present owner has built a parking lot, a garage, a porch, resrestored the wheel and the vanes, ...