Chapelle des Ursulines
Rue de verdun, 33490 Saint-Macaire
- Gironde
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
The Ursulines settled near the chapel of Saint-Michel, attested since the fourteenth century, which accompanied a cemetery outside the walls, facing the main door of access to the city. Looted by the Huguenots, the sanctuary was remodelled and enlarged by the Ursulines as soon as they arrived, keeping the bedside flat and adding a wooden vault. The trompe-l'oeil decoration was altered during the French Revolution as the building became the seat of the Jacobin club, but the entrance gate retains the weapons of François de Sourdis, very elegant. It is flanked by columns resting on high bedrock and supporting a broken triangular pediment...
The current interior configuration dates back to 1861, when Cardinal Donnet brought the Catholic reconquest to Bordeaux.
The Ursulines opened an educational institution for young girls in Saint-Macaire in 1626 at the initiative of the Jurats who wanted to create an equivalent to the Jesuit college for boys, under the protection of Cardinal François de
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