Chapelle Notre-Dame-Liberatrice de Salins-les-Bains

Places to see in ( Besancon - France ) Chapelle Notre Dame du Refuge

Places to see in ( Besancon - France ) Chapelle Notre Dame du Refuge

The Chapel of Our Lady of Refuge or Notre-Dame-du-Foyer is a chapel Catholic style baroque of the xviii th century situated in Besançon ( Doubs ), with a dome monumental in tiles polychrome glazed, attached to an old Couvent du Refuge from 1709 to the Saint - Jacques Hospital in Besançon in 1802 . Located in the historic center ( La Boucle ) Besançon in the Doubs inFranche-Comté , it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and classified as a historical monument in 1970.

Following the second conquest of Franche-Comté in 1678 by King Louis XIV of France , the archbishops of Besançon built the Saint-Jacques Hospital in Besançon in 1686 , as well as the former Couvent du Refuge in 1709 , then this chapel / institution neighboring in 1739 by architect Nicolas Nicole for women and girls morally at risk on the site of a previous church of 1690 .

The monument is built on a plane drawn at the ellipse , and the main axis is occupied at its extremities by the entrance door and the choir . Strongly inspired by the Institut de France in Paris , and in the image of the Notre-Dame-Libératrice chapel in Salins-les-Bains , it is called Church of the Good Shepherd and then Chapel of Our Lady of the Home ». Declared a national asset during the French Revolution , it was attached in 1802 to the Saint - Jacques Hospital in Besançon . The dome culminates at 26 metershigh, and the chapel includes painted medallions, master paintings and sculpture by Claude François Devosge.

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