Miller on a donkey with a sack of flour

The miller holds a special place in Provençal literature. Alphonse Daudet devoted one of the finest pieces in Lettres de mon moulin (Letters from My Windmill) to him, "Le Secret de maître Cornille" (Master Cornille's Secret), the story of an old miller who refuses to see his windmill disappear in the face of steam-powered flour mills. In the Nativity scene, this character keeps all his tenderness.

Our miller on a donkey with flour brings a sack of flour to the Child, an offering that evokes bread, the staple food of every family. At 6 cm, he joins a first Nativity scene and goes very well with a mill or a baker, to tell the story of wheat becoming bread.

This santon is made in our workshop in Aix-en-Provence from a model sculpted by hand by the Fouque family. The clay is molded, retouched, slowly dried, gradually fired, then decorated by hand with matte paint, color after color.

Find him in our shop-workshop at 65 cours Gambetta or at our exhibitions. Each santon is individually wrapped in tissue paper and then bubble wrap; your parcel ships within 2 to 3 business days.