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2 unusual facts about Pierrefeu


Peyret-Mauboussin

The second Peyret-Mauboussin PM XI F-AJUL is preserved in the Musee Castel-Mauboussin at Cuers-Pierrefeu airfield near Toulon and can be viewed by prior arrangement.

Victor Ardisson

Victor Ardisson was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in a psychiatric hospital at Pierrefeu-du-Var.


Airship hangar

Nevertheless at the end of the First World War an airship station for rigid airships was built in Cuers-Pierrefeu by adding the parts of smaller hangars to two big ones.

François de Pierrefeu

François de Pierrefeu (3 March 1891 - 1959) was a French engineer and urban planner who was one of the founders of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM).


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