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A half-timbered house or house with wood sides (a term best used when the house is multi-stage), is a house consisting of two main elements: A wood-frame structure of the house, consisting of upper and lower pits, poles, landfills and turning. The hourdage, which forms the walls and acts as a filler and stiffener. It is made of bricks (usually raw) or lightweight materials such as mud or plaster. The term timber commonly used to describe a set of "half-timbered" comes from the word dove (nf), certified in 1334 to mean "door jamb", "beam in a wall" and beam in "joist framing" , which is a doublet of "column" certified as Columba in 1080, the / b / is epenthetic linked to the difficulty of pronunciation of the group / mn / classical Latin columna, column . This technique, known in Roman times under the name of opus craticium was used in France at least since the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. However, from the seventeenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, plaster facades of houses with wood to make them look more luxurious and modern. But many remain timbered houses all over Europe and restoration plans are implemented to maintain this type of habitat considered an architectural heritage.

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Troyes (French pronunciation: is a commune and the capital of the Aube department in north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about 150 km (93 mi) southeast of Paris. Many half-timbered houses (mainly of the 16th century) survive in the old town. Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, as Augustobona Tricassium, which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the Via Agrippa.

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