Qualified(Described) by Tourny "ornaments of not enough importance" because not very expensive, mascarons have stood out for the XVIIIth century as one of the decorative motives most used on ships of Bordeaux.
Public buildings, businesses, buildings of report(relationship), private residences, all carry these faces(figures). But what do they represent and are they the same from a building(ship) to the other one and from time(period) to the other one? During our visit we will try to answer these questions, the meeting of those that Jacques Sargos qualified as "people of stone".