Église Notre-Dame de Mouzon

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The Abbey of Notre-Dame de Mouzon is the former church of the Abbey of Mouzon, in the Ardennes in France. The evolution of this abbey in the Middle Ages is linked to the relics sheltered in this place, especially those of Saint Victor and Saint Arnoul. An object of ostentatious worship, these relics become sources of material income.

The influx of pilgrims imposed the construction of this building, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which was inspired by the first Gothic-style constructions, but already announced, by certain technical choices, a second generation. The relatively small dimensions of the place, compared to these stone vessels, which are the large cathedrals, allow visitors to embrace without difficulty the whole envelope of the church, with inside differences of intensity in the light giving relief to elements of architecture and religious furniture. The presence of a reclusory a few meters from the choir of the abbatial is also a testimony of the diversity of forms that then takes religious life in the West.

At the beginning of the 18th century, an organ was set up by Christophe Moucherel and a baroque-style high altar. When...