Mr.Postman.

Ferdinand Cheval

was a French postman who spent thirty-three years of his life building Le Palais Idéal. For the next thirty-three years, Cheval picked up stones during his daily mail round and carried them home to build the Palais idéal. He spent the first twenty years building the outer walls. At first, he carried the stones in his pockets, then switched to a basket. Eventually, he used a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.Cheval also wanted to be buried in his palace. However, since that is illegal in France, he proceeded to spend eight more years building a mausoleum for himself in the Hauterives cemetery. He died on August 19, 1924, around a year after he had finished building it....Dread.
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(not him, just a happy postman)

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