La maison Langlois

Built around 1915 in the cubic style, this red brick village-center residence near the church and general store was first the home of notary Joseph Arthur Rioux and his wife, Agnès Langlois, reflecting Rioux's place in the village elite alongside the parish priest and general merchant and reinforced by his marriage into the Langlois family. Its size, large front gallery, and room-by-room structure gave it the appearance of a bourgeois home. After Agnès Langlois died in 1956, she left the house to her niece Eugénie, who with her husband, Joseph Sasseville, converted part of the ground floor into a convenience store, continuing the Langlois family's commercial tradition. In the 1970s the couple retired from business and the house returned to private residential use, and around 2000, as Sainte-Flavie became increasingly oriented toward tourism, artist Serge Desbiens of Charlevoix bought the property and turned the former store into an art gallery.

Quebec · Canada