Baroque Church of Our Lady of the Assumption

Fabulous Baroque decor. Notre Dame de l'Assomption church was built between 1781 and 1787. Its balanced, vigorous silhouette is refined by a bulbous bell tower with openwork lantern and twin bays resting on median columns. The last fire in 1973 was a major one, requiring the intervention of the "Monuments Historiques", who listed the building in 1974 and financed the reconstruction of the bell tower and a first stage of restoration. The steeple was clad in "patinated" (hot-painted) steel to imitate the rust of an 1816 tinplate. The sober exterior gives no hint of the superb Baroque decoration. Baroque aims to astonish and dazzle, and it achieves this through the effects of light and movement. The furniture, paintings and architecture are designed to evoke a strong sense of beauty, while at the same time suggesting that this earthly beauty is merely an illusion in the face of the true beauty of the divine world. Gilding, gold leaf, carved wood, polychromy - nothing is too beautiful to affirm faith. It borrows its azure from heaven, its purple from blood and its light from gold. The paintings, pictures and statues in our church tell the whole story of Christianity, and allow us to relive it in a few moments, especially the story of the Virgin Mary.

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