St. Mary's Chapel

Last vestige of the Sainte Marie Convent, built in the 2018th century. In February XNUMX, the La Baraka company moved into the chapel, a deconsecrated building transformed into a dance studio.

The nuns of Notre-Dame de Bordeaux built the Sainte Marie convent in the early 1630s, which became a "house of education" in 1636, on the ruins of the Château de Malatour, razed in 1476. This establishment was intended to collect poor girls in the city and to ensure their education. During the Revolution, the nuns of Notre-Dame had to leave, the convent served as a prison and was ransacked, the prisoners had burned the floors to keep warm. Then nuns, this time Ursulines, returned in 1805 and continued to teach for 100 years, until the Separation of Church and State. The municipality used it as then as a deposit, then in housing. Note that the walls also welcomed a good number of refugees during the First World War, including 350 ladies of so-called "little virtue", of German and Austrian origin who officiated in the capital... imagine the effect of their arrival one Saturday morning, market day!!! Today, they are HLM apartments, which certainly have the most beautiful view of the city!
Note that two elements of this chapel, the entrance gate and the ceiling, were registered on March 30, 1954 and September 8, 1955 in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments before the whole building was classified as a Historic Monument. March 3, 1981. The portal which gives access to the chapel is remarkable for its classic and conventional character. The heavy door with two leaves surmounted by a wooden tympanum inscribes its semicircular arch between the two white stone jambs surmounted by a triangular pediment. In the center of this pediment, a niche probably housed a statue of the Virgin, Patroness of the Congregation. The chapel was restored in the years 1970-1980.

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