Ferdinand Cheval went postal. He was a postman who spent most of his life building what he called the ‘ideal palace’. Everyday he would pick up stones on his route and use them to make his palace. I imagine after a few years he must have had the cleanest town in France. He often worked at night. But that didn’t go unnoticed by the town folk who thought he was… odd. Could you blame them? Near the end of his life he began to receive some kudos from people like Picasso and Andre Breton.
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