article_snippet: Ferdinand Cheval left school at age 13 to become a baker's apprentice, but ended up delivering mail in the Hauterives area.
article_snippet: Ferdinand Cheval later wrote in Ferdinand Cheval journal: 'I wanted to know the cause.
article_snippet: I told no one about it for fear of being ridiculed and I felt ridiculous Ferdinand Cheval. '
article_snippet: The dedicated builder would often have to work well into the night, by the light of an oil lamp, but that didn't deter Ferdinand Cheval from Ferdinand Cheval mission.
article_snippet: Ferdinand Cheval would construct a palace, a castle or caves at night, after work, by the light of oil lamps. 
article_snippet: When Ferdinand Cheval died, Ferdinand Cheval requested that Ferdinand Cheval could be buried at the palace.
article_snippet: Sadly Ferdinand Cheval was not permitted and the talented constructor ended up building Ferdinand Cheval own mausoleum for Ferdinand Cheval in the cemetery where Ferdinand Cheval was buried after Ferdinand Cheval death in 1924, a year after finishing the palace.