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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Susie Beever

Bizarre French palace built by a postie who developed an obsession with wonky stones

Squint and you'll be easily fooled into thinking this bizarre construction is another of Angkor Wat's temples.

But its twisted, contorting stonework is in fact the work of a postman who lived across the English Channel.

It all started when postie Ferdinand Cheval tripped over a pebble one day in 1879, and looked down to notice the small stone's unusual shape.

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