Church of Saint-Étienne, Brie-Comte-Robert

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Saint-Étienne de Brie-Comte-Robert is a parish Catholic church located in the commune of Brie-Comte-Robert in Île-de-France. A Christian community and a church are attested to in Brie-Comte-Robert in the sixth century. The relic insignia that Lord Robert II of Dreux brought back from the Holy Land in 1192 undoubtedly motivated the construction of the present church.

In Gothic style, it is influenced by Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, but also by Saint-Merri Church. It is a vast, elegant, lofty and bright building, with a homogeneous plan and a particularly neat execution, as evidenced by the clear and rosaceous bedside, the triforium and the systematic use of columnette drums in crime. The stained glass windows of the eastern rosace are contemporaneous of the Holy Chapel, and of the same bill.

The church was completed around 1230, except for the first two spans, and the vaults of the first three spans. The completion took place in two stages, in the 14th century, justifying a solemn dedication in 1363, and in the Renaissance, between about 1540 and 1545. During the Hundred Years' War, the church was sacked during the 1420s and 1430s, and the church was...