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Marie-Antoinette entrusted her architect Richard Mique with the construction of a rustic Hamlet, which was very fashionable in the last quarter of the 18th century. Undoubtedly inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theories of returning to nature, this small village of twelve Norman style houses with neat interiors revolves around a lake and has a small farm where people cultivated, ploughed, fished, etc… "The pleasure of visiting all the buildings in the hamlet, seeing the cows being milked, fishing in the lake, enchanted the Queen ", wrote Mrs Campan, first lady’s maid of Marie-Antoinette.

The Refreshments Dairy, one of the twelve “buildings” in the Hamlet, was used by the Queen to taste the products of her farm. Inside, there was a large room with a decor painted in trompe-l’œil and marble furniture. The marble furniture completed the high quality interior.
Today, the poor condition requires restoration of the decors and structural elements.

Estimated budget: €700,000