2024

PRIORESS SAINT VICTOR

Monuments to visit

2 km from the village of Mercurey in the hamlet of Bray (towards Brasseuse). Built on a promontory, this priory, which has a beautiful Gothic chapel, a cellar and a pigeon, served as a dependency on the mighty abbey Saint-Victor in Paris. In 1249, the Lord of Senlis Guy le Bouteiller, who was preparing to go into a crusade with Saint Louis, made a donation to the order of the Augustins. In 1773, at the death of the last Prior of Bray, they set up the priory for the sake of economics, before being reunited under the Revolution. The rehabilitation of this set of th century buildings is engaged with the help of an association.

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