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It all began as a little boy with a first "pebble" that he came across during a walk in the countryside. A splinter in the mud, the boot freezes so as not to crush it, The heart is racing and the fingers, pudgy and reddened by the cold, feverishly grasp this marvel... my first quartz! My first treasure, my first secret....

It never left my pocket and one of its sharp edges damage it, surprising my mother as to the frequency of the sewing sessions necessary for the weekly repair of my right pocket.


It all started as a little girl; the round, polished pebbles on the beaches of the Côtes d'Armor revealed wonders of small, colourful, shiny gravel when moved. I used to pick up the most beautiful ones with delight and secretly display them in the first drawer of my bedroom, which had become my personal museum. Then, secretly, I would painstakingly open Dad's old, heavy dictionary and diligently look up the names of my treasures... I had decided that by opening the old grimoire at random I would choose the first word that was unknown to me to baptise my newcomers. At eight years of age, I had some leeway...

They each walked their own path in life, he simply welcoming the beauty of things and she wanting to understand them. At the age of 28 he decided to travel around the world to see how people lived elsewhere and if it was better than here, an epic journey he financed with "jewels" he made from stones found in the countries he visited: Turquoise, Lapis Lazuli, Jasper, Amethyst, Onyx, Obsidian, Rock Crystal etc...
Meanwhile, she took a course of scientific study, and cultivated her passion as she discovered the wonders of nature, the arrangement of atoms becoming "matter", the sciences of the Earth, plate tectonics, the mysteries of genetics and DNA...

He spent 20 years in south-eastern France while she remained faithful to her native Bretagne, each working in different fields with the pluses and minuses of an ordinary life. Life's ''hazards'' brought them together at a more mature age and their common passion for minerals quickly became their hobbies. Their respective collections had grown considerably over the years and their travels. The decision, or rather the call to bring them together to form the embryo of a fractal that would propel them to the Jura and become their new profession took only a few months. This was the genesis of their new Life, the birth of their mineral shop ten years ago, on May 1, 2011, simlpy the day when no one is working...

Since then, the little shop has evolved, the clientele has grown, local suppliers have given way to mineral shows and exchanges, then, the big international shows in Munich and Tucson in Arizona have quickly become the most topical and varied, while links have been forged over the years with mineral suppliers who are each time a little closer to the sources of extraction and the latest developments, enabling us to bring our customers the latest international mineralogical and prehistorical finds.

Today, May 1st 2021, a new chapter is being written with the opening of MINERAUX.NET, the open window on the world of the small Jurassian shop.
Thank you for reading us and enjoy your visit to our site...

Bruno & Virginie

 

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