Musée des beaux-arts, La Cohue
15 place Saint Pierre, 56000 Vannes
La Cohue, a term frequently used in the West to designate the market, dates from the 13th century to Vannes and belongs to the Duke of Brittany. The central passage welcomed butchers, bakers, canvassers, merchandisers… but became too narrow, it extended in the fourteenth century into two additional naves facing north and south, and communicating by four bays in pointed arches always visible. In the fifteenth century, the upper room, where the courts of justice of the duke are held, is built perpendicularly to the three naves of the ground floor. It retains its two large gable walls with their bays and stone benches in the embrasure. Transformed in the seventeenth century, this space of beautiful proportions houses the parliament of Brittany exiled in Vannes between 1975 and 1690\. This work requires strengthening the building on the ground floor with massive and vaulted pillars. It was around this time that the entire building had roofs. Under the Revolution, the upper hall served as a
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Musée de France, Monument historique, Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire, Musée, salle d'exposition
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