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Gillis a Barras - 47500 Saint-Front-sur-Lémance, 5 km from Fumel, France, Tel: +33-(0)5 53 40 65 54.
"Around the house near Bergerac, once occupied by Jean Prosper Gillis, animals of all shapes and sizes frolic in the grass - all of them made of brightly painted cement."
"Between 1968 and 1973, the former bricklayer created his own Garden of Eden on a hillside plot, under the watchful eye of a statue of Charles de Gaulle. Standing close to the grerat man are an elephant, representing wisdom and strentgh, and a tiger, whose warlike nature symbolises the heroes of the Resistance. Further down the slope is an idyllic scene, in which dog and bear, kangaroo and zebra live peacefully side by side, and a boa constrictor curls up contentedly next to a flamingo."
Excerpted text and images are from "Fantasy Worlds" by Deidi Von Schaewen and John Maizels, 1999
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