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    Saint-Michel neighborhood

    Huddled on the South of its church, Saint-Michel area is one of the oldest in La-Ferté-Saint-Aubin; until 18th C. it was the administrative and commercial center of the village.
    The square at the junction between the main road and rue Saint-Michel was called "Place de la Halle" at the time ; It included a common house-hall, a common well and a few houses, among them, the house of a postmaster.
    The common house-hall, erected by the landlord in the late 16th C., was used as a town-hall, a court, or a covered market on thursdays; an adjacent building, was used as a jail.

    In that area, a few timber framed houses are still standing.
    The Ecu de France Inn is among the oldest ones since a lease of it, as old as 1672, had been discovered. In the next street, rue de Sully, one can still recognize a few scarce timber framed houses - specially a rare two-stored building.
    In Saint-Michel and Saint-Aubin parishes most of the old brick houses let us the legacy of the four tile-brickworks that operated in that area.