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Small kitchen, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France

The little kitchen, used to wash laundry and to heat the floor in the neighbouring steam room using the hearth to the left of the fireplace, in the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. The steam room had a double basin of hot and cold water and a room with water for washing, and a cloakroom, as well as direct staircase access to the private apartments. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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The little kitchen, used to wash laundry and to heat the floor in the neighbouring steam room using the hearth to the left of the fireplace, in the Palais Jacques Coeur, huge manor house built 1443-51 in Flamboyant Gothic style, on the Place Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France. The steam room had a double basin of hot and cold water and a room with water for washing, and a cloakroom, as well as direct staircase access to the private apartments. Jacques Coeur, 1395-1456, was a wealthy merchant and was made master of the mint to King Charles VII in 1438. The building is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen