Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Mont

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The chapel Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, called chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Mont, is a chapel located in the commune of Boussières, in the Doubs, in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region. The first chapel was built in the 16th century; the current building dates from 1872.

Four chapels were built on the same site. The first was built in 1585 following a vow by Marguerite Perrenot de Granvelle, daughter of Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, wife of Jean d'Achey, Baron of Thoraise, and heir to the death of her husband in the domain of Thoraise, in homage to the protection of the Virgin implored during the attack on Besançon by the Huguenots in 1575. First dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation, it is twice destroyed and rebuilt and then dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption in the seventeenth century. At the beginning of the 18th century, the site was entrusted to the Brotherhood of Notre-Dame du Mont. After its dissolution in 1792, the chapel fell into ruins and was rebuilt one last time in 1872, on the plans of the bisontin architect Alfred Ducat, according to the wish of Abbé Boivin, who died during the works and was buried there. In the 17th and 18th centuries, many...