|  | |  | | | Bousillage Close-up and Badin Roque House | | | A French style wall consisted of upright posts spaced roughly two feet apart. Small wooden laths were placed between the upright posts, and a mixture of mud, Spanish moss or deer hair referred to as bousillage was draped on the laths and smoothed out. The top picture shows a close-up of bousillage. The bottom shows a view of the Badin Roque house in Louisiana on the Cane River. This house is an example of poteau en terre construction dating to the early 1800s, and possibly earlier. | | | Source: St. Augustine Historical Society, Melrose, Louisiana | |
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