The Saint Rémy Church: the first Saint-Rémy church, of which only the tower remains today, was built in the 13th century. It was built at the foot of the hill on which today stands Château-musée. The church gradually fell to ruins and the new Saint Rémy church was built in the heart of the town. It was Thomas Bouchard, deputy mayor and treasurer of the parish who laid the 1st stone in 1522. The gothic centre, surrounded by an ambulatory and radiating chapels, was completed in 1545, but the influence of the first French Renaissance was already visible in the décor. The construction work was interrupted by the religious wars and recommenced only in the 17th century in a completely new spirit : that of the Catholic counter-Reform. God was busy having a siesta today and so we did not get to see the church inside as it was closed.
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