Before the war when the Domaine
du Foulon was still a farm the Jacob Luxury Room was presumably
used for storing hay and tall farm equipment. In reality
it didn't exist at all as the whole first floor wasn't installed
- it formed part of a large double height space underneath
the house built on columns. We have retained the same layout
as the original room and bathroom, except our bathroom is
a little larger.
The room is named after an infamous local of the restaurant
and bar. Jacob Atkinson was an unlikely Englishman who used
to work on the Nice to Draguignan railway that passed by
the mouth of the Gorges du Loup before the Nazis blew up
the
beautiful viaduct on learning they'd lost the war. How he
came to live down here nobody knows, but after the demise
of his beloved railway he was often to be seen with his long
suffering wife, propping up the bar. He'd arrive late and
had an unwritten
agreement that he'd be fed on the cheap
with whatever the kitchen had to offer, much to the embarrassment
of his wife. |
