As told before, Brec’h (breton) Brech (French) was the first town I lived when came to the beautiful Morbihan dept 56 of the lovely Bretagne in 2011. It is a town divided into many smaller villages or lieu-dit and the main town or bourg , even thus I lived in Corn er Hoët (Breton, French would be Orée du Bois meaning edge of the woods). It really packs a lot of monuments with nice architecture and history for a small town, I was lucky to lived in it briefly. Therefore, let me tell you again on the Chartreuse Saint Michel of Brec’h, part II !!! It is by the village of Penhoet, part of Brech off D120e coming to Brech on the D768 off the N165 expressway. Hope you enjoy the post as I.
The Chartreuse Saint Michel, (charterhouse) was built in 1382 in memory of the soldiers who fought in the war of succession of Brittany ,where the toughest battle was held on Sunday, September 29 1364 the day of St Michel. François II, Duke of Brittany change the collegiale of the monastery of Chartreux in 1480 , an order founded by St Bruno. Under the French revolution, the chartreuses were chase out. The abbe Gabriel Deshayes, priest of Auray put in here in 1812 the Filles de la Sagesse, or Daughters of the Wisdom who were in charge of caring for the blind, deafs, and hard of hearing or understood. In 1814, under the restauration in France, the bones of the immigrants who were shot in firing squad during the revolution at the Champ des Martyrs (field of heroes) in 1795 were transfert here It is today part handle by a retirement center, Daughters of the wisdom An attach building is held by an order of Montforistes religious order and houses homes for the needed and impaired. I have been and it is nice, need reservation.
The Chartreuse St Michel has a cloister dating from the 17C. The chapel was built around 1720. The refectory, built around 1630, is covered with a paneled vault painted and decorated around 1750, and retains woodwork at the base of the walls. The sepulchral chapel communicates with the church by a large arcade, the sides of which are adorned with two bas-reliefs in white marble. The story goes that on May 15, 1814, in a funeral vault of the Chartreuse, where the Duke of Angoulême, son of Charles X came to gather the same year. On September 20, 1823, Madame Royale, Duchess of Angoulême, the only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette lays the first stone on the one hand, at the Chartreuse, of the Quiberon monument also known as the sepulchral chapel, intended to house the mausoleum and on the other hand, on the Martyrs’ field, the expiatory chapel. The two buildings were inaugurated on October 15, 1829.
In August 1795, near the same Kerzo marsh, nearly a thousand royalist and Chouan emigres (from England) were shot after the failed landing at Quiberon. In the Champ des Martyrs, a mausoleum was built as above. The remains are kept in the Chartreuse Saint Michel, In May 2015, Prince Louis de Bourbon (legitime king Louis XX) went to Brec’h, with his wife Princess Marie-Marguerite, during his official visit to Morbihan. He then announced the financing of the restoration of the Expiatory Chapel of Champ-des-Martyrs by the House of Bourbon.
The city of Brec’h on the Chartreuse : https://www.brech.fr/a-voir/le-patrimoine-historique/la-chartreuse/la-grande-histoire-de-la-chartreuse/
The Bay of Quiberon tourist office on the Charterhouse: https://www.baiedequiberon.co.uk/to-see-to-do/culture-and-heritage/chapels-and-churches/the-charterhouse-1
There you go folks, another dandy spot in my beautiful Morbihan and sentimental Brec’h Nowedays we passed by my old Corn er Hoët every day , and the memories continue. Again, hope you enjoy the post on the Chartreuse Saint Michel of Brec’h, part II as I
And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!
Paris1972-Versailles2003 