“It’s a great surprise. It will allow us to go even further in the restoration of the Crabos island, ”reacts Arnaud Tauzin, mayor of Saint-Sever. Monday 1is September, the Heritage Mission for the safeguarding of heritage in danger carried by Stéphane Bern, unveiled the 102 departmental sites of metropolitan and overseas winners in 2025.
They will benefit from the financial support of the eighth edition of the heritage lottery game offer, with its scratching and drawing games, part of the bets are dedicated to sites in danger throughout the territory (read also).
For the Crabos island, owned by the town since 2022, this aid could be between “100,000 and 300,000 euros maximum”, specifies Arnaud Tauzin. The exact amount will certainly be known in December. In parallel, a subscription was launched for a call to donations from individuals. On Friday September 5, 2025, 1,850 euros had been collected for an target of 80,000 euros by March 31, 2026.
The interior of the old Crabos factory.
Flora Valette
Gildas Aulnette, architect and project manager for the rehabilitation operation of the Crabos island in the architectural firm Perrot and Richard, returns to the different uses that this site experienced, based on an aerial photo.
“In the foreground, we have a U, it is the mansion formerly owned by the Barbotan family. Around 1804, the site became a boarding school of young girls who welcomed the Ursulines, he said. A wing and a chapel are then built. Finally, in the 1900s, the industrialist Abel Crabos bought the site to develop his plant processing plant. The elements in gray that we see in the background of the mansion and on the left side are none other than the sheets in sheet metal and metal added at the time of the manufacture. The facade with the closed blue shutters contained the offices of the manufacture. »»
Safety
In 2023, the city received just under 1.2 million euros from the State for the Green Fund of the Ministry of Ecological Transition. “Until the acquisition by the city in 2022, the site was abandoned and the wing the south fell. With this help, we started in 2024 site safety work (depollution, withdrawal of all traces of asbestos, lead and fuel oil accumulated for production decades). These works should soon be ended, ”says the architect.
With the help of the Heritage Mission, it will now be a question of “restoring the coverage of the wing built at the time of the Ursuline Convent, because we had to withdraw it for the security. Remove the cover at the chapel and take up the one at the building which contained the offices ”.
The rehabilitation of the site must lead, among other things, to a hotel-restaurant complex. “A call for demonstration of interest will be launched next year,” announces the mayor. Friday, September 19, 2025, the city will inaugurate at 3 p.m. the passage “Plume”, which connects the city center to the Cap de Gascogne college. An event since the public will now be able to cross the old manufacture.
Lotto and scratch game
The new game to scratch Mission Patrimoine, available in three versions, allows to win up to 1.5 million euros for a bet of 15 euros. Designed in horizontal format, it represents a French garden. Each of the three versions highlights six emblematic sites of the 2025 edition, through six play areas represented by symmetrical flowerbeds. For each scratch ticket purchased, € 1.83 will be donated by the State to the Heritage Foundation.
In addition to scratching, eight dedicated lotto prints will be offered today to Monday, September 22. This device is made up of seven conventional prints to be held on 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, and September 22, whose jackpot will amount to minimum 2 million euros. A super lotto will also take place on Friday, September 19, on the eve of the European Heritage Days, with a jackpot of minimum 13 million euros.
The state will donate € 0.54 to the Heritage Foundation for each grid of € 2.20 played, and € 0.73 for each grid of 3 euros played as part of the Super Loto.
