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The story begins in 1991 when an industrialist Italian couple living in the Lille region come across a quadrilateral-shaped country seat : A rare regional piece of evidence of the 19th century, typical of the French Flanders.
Even dilapidated, the farmhouse is still worthy.
This old wrinkled lady has a name : Les Cigognes ("The Storks"). Behind the name, a 200 year-old love story :
A countryman has the farm build for his lover. When she leaves him and disappears, he scours the whole region and places a nest and two storks on the chimney-pot as it is believed that "The storks always fly back to their nest". The tale does not say if his lover ever came back.
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