Chapelle Saint-Joseph

English translation

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History

Founded around 1616 on the initiative of the cardinal of Sourdis, the society of the sisters of Saint-Joseph acquired in 1663 a plot of land to construct the chapel which was completed no doubt before 1671. Built according to the plan of Roman Baroque churches, with small lateral chapels, a little-projecting transept and windows pierced through the vault, the chapel possesses a chevet of three parts entirely occupied by a retable in stone, in the Roman manner. The church was manifestly built for the retable composed of powerful Corinthian columns delimiting a central tableau and two curved wings which support an entablature bearing a second order and surmounted at its extremities by a baluster. On the exterior, the 18th-century façade is rhythmed by two imposing pilasters bearing an entablature surmounted by a curved pediment. The portal is surmounted by a broken pediment from which rises a Baroque niche containing a statue of Saint-Joseph.