2023Church of Notre-Dame Lady of the Assumption - Set

Started in 1423 under the reign of Charles VII, from a previous Romanesque building, the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church in Fontenay-le-Comte bears striking witness to the economic, political and intellectual prosperity of the city at the dawn of modern times. Fontenay then depended on Arthur de Richemont, Constable of France: the city was brought to him by his marriage to Marguerite de Bourgogne, widow of the Dauphin Louis de Guyenne. It owes its wealth to the talent of its weavers and tanners, and to the influence of its fair, one of the most important in the kingdom.