alongside the garden, which allowed the Carthusian father to walk around, particularly during the Alsatian winter, and also to access the latrines, simple pits whose emptying was the responsibility of the executioner of Molsheim. A cell, excluding the walkway, measured about eight by nine metres, which, given the thickness of the walls, gave a usable interior surface area of about 56 square metres. Two cell plans coexisted at Molsheim: the first can be found in cell E (see below), but also D, F or G. The main feature of this plan is the presence of a corridor about one metre wide separating the living areas from the cloister. This corridor ends at one end with the door to the small garden and at the other with the staircase to the cell's attic. The other, simplified plan is, for example, reproduced in cells K, L, M, P or Q (below, cell L): the long corridor serving as an airlock is absent, and the cell's entrance door leads directly into the large room, as does the staircase to the attic. In most Carthusian monasteries, the monk's life is divided into two parts: manual work downstairs in the garden and prayer, study and living upstairs. In Molsheim, this arrangement was not implemented and manual work was located in the workshop. Whatever the plan, once past the possible airlock, the cell is divided into three rooms. The largest, on the wall, is lit by a single window. Known as the "workshop" or "laboratory", it was used by the father for his manual work: painting, woodturning, for some of the activities identified in Molsheim. The other two rooms are located on the garden side. The one closest to the cloister is the father's bedroom or cubiculum, which also served as his oratory for the recitation of services. It consists of a bed, a wardrobe and a stall with a prie-Dieu. The last small room, on the opposite side of the garden from the cloister, is the studium. Heated by a stove (initially an earthenware stove, then a cast-iron stove at the end of the 18th century), it was the study room, where manuscripts were copied and bound. For this purpose, it contained a table and some library shelves. A shelf in the window embrasure allowed the monk to take his meals. Finally, the small garden, of about the same size as the cottage, was mainly