Musée des poupées d’antan et de la tonnellerie

In Maisons les Chaource, Mr and Mrs Hugerot are enthusiasts. For over twenty years they have been collecting old dolls and for more than ten years they have been displaying them to the public.

Mrs Hugerot may have been the first to have been bitten by the bug, but it was Mr Hugerot who assembled the items in the collection from all over France. 150 dolls recounting the story of the toy over a century from 1850 to 1950, accompanied by all their accessories: clothes, table settings, miniature furniture, etc...

From the first wax dolls to rubber dolls made in the 1950s, everything is there. Pauline (about 1860), Bécassine (1905), the "Twins" (end of the 19th), the Petit Collin bathers (1920s)…

In 1996 they extended the museum by creating a room of a different sort altogether: a coopers workshop.

Instead of just displaying a collection of tools, they set up an actual workshop, used by  Georges Tribouillat and then his son Fernand (Best Workers in France), installed in Lagesse, a village close to Maisons les Chaource.

The large cabinets with drawers, the cooper’s benches, dozens of tools, the masterpieces and the medals with which they were recognized: it’s all there.