Hélène Nougaro, Audoise at heart, in Belpech to support the Jalousie mill

Friday 24th January 2025 06:19 AM

the essential
Hélène Nougaro now lives in Paris but regularly returns to Toulouse and in Aude, to Paziols. She was last Saturday in Belpech.

The Heritage mission entrusted to Stéphane Bern makes it possible to identify heritage in danger and to seek solutions to ensure the financing of the restoration work. At the end of last year, on the principle of one file selected by department, it was the Jalousie mill in Belpech which was rewarded.

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Last week, with the support of many personalities, the facsimile of the check for 160,000 euros was given to Pierre Armengaud, the president of the Moulin des Bois Ovales association responsible for the mill rehabilitation project.

“I’m sure my husband would have been there to accompany me”

Among the many guests at this solemn presentation by the regional delegate of the Bern mission, Patrice Genet, the godmother of this association, Hélène Nougaro, Claude’s wife, wanted to be present. “I really enjoyed this moment. Both I and Claude really liked the mills. I have come here several times and I am sure that my husband would have been there to accompany me. I would also like to praise the work of Pierre Armengaud who don’t count your time in order to successfully complete the renovation of this water mill, witness to so much history and which still keeps the sawmill running.”

“I really like these Hautes Corbières”

A moving speech which was punctuated by the reading of a song written by her late husband in 1976 and which paid homage to this water, an essential element for all kinds of life: “The song of the desert”. Also an opportunity to hear news from this Audoise at heart who, 30 years ago, bought a winegrower’s house with Claude in Paziols, in Corbières. “It was the Ardéchois Bernard Champey, world champion of boules lyonnaise, who introduced us to the place. We renovated this small house in the center of the village and, for three years, with a manager in place, I was able to reopen the adjoining café which gives a second wind to the village. I really like these Hautes Corbières and I come there regularly from Toulouse.