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Petit Séminaire, ou la Petite Bourdaisière

Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Edifice dit La Petite Bourdaisière (cad. CK 389) : inscription par arrêté du 13 juillet 1926
Protection dates
1926/07/13 : inscrit MH
Type
séminaire
Main period of construction
2e moitié 15e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
rue du Petit-Pré
Commune
Tours
Département
Indre-et-Loire
Region
Centre-Val de Loire
Country
France
Coordinates
47.39405, 0.69664
Mérimée reference
PA00098266

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1592 map "Topographia Aug. Turon Ducatus et confinium Gallia Cestica ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Maison en brique et pierre, avec une tourelle d'escalier polygonale, élevée à la fin du 15e siècle à l'extérieur des murailles de Tours. Elle appartint au 16e siècle à la famille des Babou de la Bourdaisière et fut cédée en 1613 au tapissier Alexandre Motheron. Elle est attenante à la chapelle Saint-Michel. C'est dans ce bâtiment que Babou aurait installé, sous François Ier, le premier atelier de tapisserie de Tours.

English translation

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House in brick and stone, with a polygonal staircase turret, built at the end of the 15th century outside the walls of Tours. It belonged in the 16th century to the family of Babou de la Bourdaisière and was ceded in 1613 to the tapestry maker Alexandre Motheron. It is adjoining the chapel of Saint-Michel. It was in this building that Babou is said to have set up, under Francis I, the first tapestry workshop of Tours.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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