Angélique Cerny started her antique business when she inherited a huge house from her parents, full of traditional furniture in excellent condition. At the time she had just married the hairdresser Pierre, who still practises his profession in the outhouse, although the antique business is costing him more and more time. They converted their own house and propped the lower floor full with the parental furniture and stored what was left in the huge unused cellars underneath Phillipe de Moissy’s  bank. Since then antiques have become the passion and profession of them both. In between hairdressing appointments, Pierre works in the shop and looks after their young daughter, Amélie, while Angélique scours Normandy for bridal cupboards and dressing tables from the distant past in her coach drawn by four horses.

Now that the parental furniture has been sold she makes sure that the collection is regularly renewed with 18 century British cabin trunks made of thin oak  or "Louis XV" dressoirs with original patiné, old hat boxes, binoculars, cabin trunks and crockery services. She found an original walnut cradle from 1680 especially for George Honfleur's daughter, Francine, and in an old cloister she found a huge pine table with six Victorian chairs with seats made out of a single piece to go in the council chamber in the town hall of Mayor Victor Domont. For the "Eglise Saint Véronique" of Padre Henry Thiory as well as the beautiful bell from Italy, she even discovered an attractive tabernacle of German origin, including a triptych by an unknown artist but of high quality.

Pierre doesn’t like all the travelling. Sometimes he accompanies her, but after all someone has to work in the shop and he also has his hairdressing customers who rely on him. For example, Jean de Limours , Chareauville's postmaster, comes every week!