It also houses a library and specialized bookshop. The imposing windows are mainly built around the trades, the museum being divided into 4 families: wood, iron, animal and mineral. The tools have been carefully chosen to become witnes...
Romanesque nave (10th-12th centuries), apse and transept from the 16th century. Completely restored in the 19th century, the church is still maintained today. The slenderness of its bell tower and roof, combined with the wood panelling...
Destroyed around 889-892 by Norman plunderers, it was probably rebuilt in wood like most of the buildings of this period. However, the Champagne fairs that made the town's fortune enabled it to be rebuilt and it took the name of Saint Jean au Marché....
At the time, it was outside the city walls, under the control of the cathedral's canons. Encompassed within the new city walls built in the 13th c., the church underwent numerous extensions and transformations. It also received new stained-glass wind...
Mentioned in 1157, its construction dates back to 1120, but it was rebuilt around 1200 in the Gothic style just emerging in France. Its apse and choir were renovated again around 1500, in the flamboyant Gothic style of the period. Its ...
The current church was built at the beginning of the 16th century, and is very homogeneous. The west portal is a little more recent, it was built in 1611 by the Baudrot brothers. The church has a nave and two aisles with three bays, bordered by side ...
Until the 18th century, nuns housed and trained orphan girls, nicknamed Grisettes because of their gray uniforms. The "quartier bas" and the parish of Saint-Nizier have long been home to many destitute people. Reverend Father Lafra, whose name...
In 1642, he founded Ville-Marie, later Montreal, and served as its governor until 1664. His sister, Jacqueline de Chomedey de Chevilly, occupied this hotel. She made it partly available to Marguerite Bourgeoys and two of her companions, who wi...
A little history: The founding of the abbey : A diocesan priest named Arremar founded a Benedictine monastery in 837 on land given to him by Count Aleran, a loyal servant of the Emperor. In 854, Charles le Chauve granted the monastery i...
The church of Saint-Benoit dates from the 12th century. It is one of the oldest Romanesque churches of the dawn whose architecture has not been altered, but it was restored in the 16th century and has a 16th century glass roof classified as a histori...