About...

... La Bouscatière




In Provence, the bouscatiere or bousquetière is the place where the wood is stored.

Built in the 18th century, at the foot of the Notre Dame de Beauvoir chapel (12th century), La Bouscatière and its garden have continued to evolve over the centuries and its owners.

Mrs. Buron, owner of the Achard family home, a former oil mill and forge workshop, had a small garden behind her house, known as “La Bouscatière”.

It was also a dependency of the workshop of Feraud Aîné, the last master potter of Moustiers in the 19th century. Feraud had his studio further west on the boulevard. One still reads, on rainy days when the facade is well washed, “Faience store, Feraud”, property of Mr. Bondil Comte, former mayor of Moustiers. Feraud occupied, with the exception of the hospital, almost the whole district. In the "Bouscatière" he stored his wood in a very modest pavilion.

In the garden is a small chapel where the gray penitents from Notre Dame de Beauvoir, a 17th century brotherhood, prayed.

Tonia Peyrot, decorator of the Bastide de Moustiers by Alain Ducasse, was the one who had the idea of ​​making it a guest house.

Purchased in 2012, the house was completely redecorated in 2021 by its new owners.

The bouquet of Saint-Éloi on the facade of La Bouscatière:

The name comes from Saint Eloi, the patron saint of workers who use a hammer, that is to say goldsmiths and metallurgists, and therefore farriers.


Very few of these bouquets still exist. Most are in museums.


That of La Bouscatière was recently restored by the Culture and Heritage Association of Moustiers, chaired by Anne Marie Blanchard, from the earthenware Achard family.