Chapelle des jésuites

Magnificent chapel, the beauty of the interior leaves you speechless. Many exhibitions are organized there, but despite everything this place is too little highlighted and often remains unknown to people passing through Chaumont. "Erected thanks to donations from Chaumont families between 1629 and 1640, it is imposing by its dimensions, and testifies to the influence of the Jesuit college created in 1617. A building typical of Jesuit architecture of this period, it commands admiration through decorative richness of its interior, in particular the monumental altarpiece by Claude Collignon, produced in 1632, it resembles a real theater setting completed with a high relief, representing an assumption, produced in the 18th century by Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon. right of the facade, in tribute to Edme Bouchardon, sculptor of King Louis XV, appears the Bouchardon fountain, listed as a Historic Monument "