LA MAISON CAVAIGNAC - MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES

This monument of the Louis XIII period was successively the convent of Des, then the Benedictine people of Bonesaigne, the prison of women, the bourgeois remains, the small seminary, the secular school, the seat of the Ernest-Rupin Museum from 1882 to 1985 before becoming the seat of the Archéologique Archaeological Society (this building was sold in 1796 to Pierre Cavaignac, Mayor of Brive,). This hotel presents 2 building bodies, together with a tower in which a side staircase is attached. On the ground floor, the left wing consists of three arcatures arcatures, the remains of the abbess cloister. The skylights of the two roofs are topped with pediments and boules. The location now houses the municipal archives of the town of Brive.