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Researching the
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site of Canada
Recherche sur la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg Lieu historique national du Canada
DOMESTIC BUILDING
CONSTRUCTION
AT THE FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG, 1713 - 1758
By
Eric Krause
1996 Draft Report
(Fortress of Louisbourg
Report Number H G 10)
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHIMNEYS AND CHIMNEY OPENINGS - SHARED CHIMNEYS
The construction, maintenance and ownership of a shared chimney was not unlike that for a shared perimeter wall. Even the same type of legal entanglement sometimes developed as neighbours misinterpreted the Custom of Paris. In one case, for example, Maurice Santier of Block 4 had been supporting his chimney for years against that of Blaise Cassagnolles. Santier, therefore, claimed common ownership for the two chimneys, but Cassagnolles disagreed, and so the Superior Council undertook to decide whether Cassagnolles' decision to demolish one of the chimneys was legal. Not surprisingly, the Council sided with Cassagnolles: clearly not only was that chimney entirely (rather than partly) on his own property, but, if further proof was necessary of single ownership, his chimney was not even of the same materials as Santier's.