My family ran a small transport company serving Thiers' cutlery industry from the seventeenth century onward. For 250 years, the business was passed from father to son, right up to my grandfather. He later built a house on the Côte d'Azur in La Croix-Valmer. Not knowing what to call it, a cousin from Ambert told him that he was a "roulier" because he headed this small family transport business, and that the house should be named "Le Mas du Roulier". The name stayed.
We sold that house in 2020, during the Covid period, and I felt its loss keenly. It was the one place where I truly felt at home, and I was deeply attached to it. The view was magical, a full 180 degrees over the Bay of Cavalaire. When I embarked on this new house, the idea was to create a new Mas du Roulier, once again with an extraordinary outlook. The property bears the signature of Philippe Tallien, one of the celebrated Saint-Tropez architects of the 1970s, who brought elegance and generous volumes to enhance the setting.
A house facing a sea of clouds, with a view even more captivating than one over the sea. A truly Provençal mas in Auvergne, and a unique one.
The spirit of the place is that of a family home: a house made for pleasure, with nothing missing for an exceptional stay. Absolute comfort, a grand natural backdrop and abundant space, with eight hectares of land and no nearby overlooking neighbours on the view side for miles. In so many places I had stayed before, the same frustration returned: there was always something missing, and the beds were rarely truly comfortable. So I chose to bring together everything that could create genuine well-being here: abundant equipment, remarkably comfortable bedding, excellent thermal insulation and ample space for large groups of up to 20 guests, all facing one of the most beautiful panoramas one could hope for.
