Jeumont is a French border city of about 10,000 inhabitants, which adjoins the city of Erquelines in Belgium.

For information on the city of Jeumont, you can click on the following links (in french only, sorry):

• Website of the Municipality of Jeumont
• Wikipedia Jeumont

This house, called « Sarrat House », was designed by architects Jacques and Henri Lafitte . It appears in the inventory of cultural heritage of Nord - Pas de Calais, see (french only):

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Inventaire.pdf

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It was built about 1925 (oral tradition) for Mr Sarrat, director of EGN (Electricity and Gas North Company) It was sold in 1937 to FACEJ (Forges and electrical workshops of Jeumont) It then belonged to the Jeumont-Schneider Company (now Areva), which has housed their successive CEOs. This house was sold to an executive of Jeumont-Schneider Company. I bought it in 2003 and sold it in 2010. Here are some references on the Internet about Sarrat House (french only):

• Architecture twentieth of Val de Sambre
• Heritage of France - Villa said Sarrat - Jeumont
• Historic monuments and buildings protected of Jeumont
• Actuacity - Villa said Sarrat - Jeumont
• Wikipedia Jeumont

Here are two photos taken just after the end of the building. These pictures are included in the book « Ensembles and Details of Architecture » (Authors: H. Lafitte - Architecte S.A.D.G., J. Lafitte - architecte agréé et ingénieur A&M) éditions EDARI (Edition d'Architecture, d'Industrie et d'Economie Rurale, SARL - 13, rue des Juifs - Strasbourg - Copyright by EDARI - Photographies DEMAREZ à Maubeuge) [1933].

Ensembles et Détails of Architecture

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