LAYOUT PROJECT
It's the summer of 1941. We are in Vichy, rue Chomelle, and more specifically in the attic of the house standing at number 7. This is where the young Jean-Marie spends his summer holidays with his grandparents, upstairs from the family medical laboratory. On the table installed below the skylight, he dreams of his trains, his models, his future layout. His workbench is poor in tools, the period is difficult: a handful of crayons, a pento protect his fingers… And by way of adhesive, a clever flour-based dilution that his mother prepares regularly for him; less frequently, a jar of cellulose glue. His materials: card of various types and thicknesses, bottle corks, a bit of thin metal wire, a few sewing pins… That summer in the magazine , published in Lyon, a spin-off from Éditions du (a fashion publication), he discovered a mining railway, probably the one serving the coal mines at Brassac.
