CORDILLERAS CONVENT

Around 1280, after numerous démêlés with the Benedictine De, Franciscans founded a convent at the limit of the city, on the parish of Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu. Destroyed around 1360, during the Hundred Years War, the convent of the Cordeliers was rebuilt in late th century. Occupied by des minor brothers, it was closed in 1792. Today only the church, the religious library and above all the cloister (fin xvii) remain. However, he fails to leave: sold in 1910 to a Parisian dealer, he was destined to be dismantled and to adorn the tennis court of an American billionaire, but was classified as an emergency in Historic monuments. The adjacent church (fin xvii) is remarkable by its apparent oak structure dating from the end of the th century and its th, th and th centuries murals. Rebuilt in the years 1370-1410, the great cloister, with its radiant Gothic style, has a very carefully decorated decoration. Its northern gallery in particular is adorned with figurative capitals representing with humour the vices (human-headed snake for hypocrisy, the thief…) and virtues (wisdom with the chouette, purity with the ermine…).