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Isolated in the Normandy countryside, this chapel is reminiscent of a hermitage. It has remained intact over the centuries, just as its master imagined it would when it was first constructed in around 1140. It is of Norman style. In the 13th century it was decorated with a painted mural that taught the life of Jesus and the Virgin, the murder of Thomas Beckett and an attack on a castle by neighboring peasants. Time has damaged it but there are still 100 m² of pictorial scenes as well as two beautiful recumbents of the thirteenth century.

This chapel belonged to the Brotherhood of the Holy Name of Jesus, nicknamed "the Bourras" because of the habit in cruets worn by their members. The chapel was built in 1597. Seized during the Revolution, it is disused, serves as a warehouse for objects from various churches and became a revolutionary court in 1793. It was classified as a historical monument in 1931.

Chapel built between 1852 and 1877. In 1923, a nave and a chapel were added. It is restored in 2008 to welcome more visitors.

This castle was built during the Renaissance and bought by the State in 1937; we owe it to Rigaud d'Aureille, bailiff of the mountains of Auvergne and maitre d'hôtel of Louis XI, Charles VIII, Louis XII and François I. It reflects a period of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence is a 20th-century chapel designed by French artist Henri Matisse. It is nestled in the little town of Vence, close to Nice.

Building built between 1926 and 1932. It is intended to honour the memory of teachers and students who died during the First World War.

Devastated during the Revolution and destroyed only in 1858, the foundation stone of the present chapel was laid on March 19, 1859. Completed in 1861, the building was consecrated on July 22, 1862.

The chapel of Notre-Dame de la Brèche (Our lady of the breach) was built in 1599, after the Protestants in 1568, during the second war of religion: a breach having been opened in the city walls by the artillery of Louis de Bourbon-Condé, the Chartrains, under the protection of a statue of Notre-Dame de la Porte Drouaise, built and defended a barricade which prevented the capture of the city. The chapel was rebuilt in 1843 to serve the parish of the lower town, the neighbouring Saint-André church having been disused during the Revolution.

This chapel was rebuilt in 1555 on the site of a much older oratory. It contains a very famous Black Madonna and is the site of a very popular pilgrimage.

The chapel of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament was built in 1900 in a neo-Romanesque style. The vault is reminiscent of the Abbey of Men in Caen. It is flooded with light, which its beautiful modern stained glass windows allow to pass through. The uniformly white colour of the interior accentuates this impression. The chapel is attached to the parish church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy.