Chapelle Notre-Dame du Refuge

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The Notre-Dame du Refuge chapel is an 18th-century Baroque-style Catholic chapel located in Besançon (Doubs), with a monumental cupola in polychrome varnished tiles, attached to a former "Convenire du Refuge" of 1709 and then to the Hospital Saint-Jacques de Besançon in 1802. Located in the historic centre (La Boucle) of Besançon in the Doubs in Franche-Comté, it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and classified as historical monuments in 1970.

History: Following the second conquest of Franche-Comté in 1678 by King Louis XIV of France, the archbishops of Besançon built the Hôpital Saint-Jacques de Besançon in 1686, as well as the former "Convenir du Refuge" in 1709, then this neighbouring chapel / institution in 1739 by architect Nicolas Nicole for women and young girls morally in danger on the site of a previous church of 1690.

The monument is built on a plane drawn to the ellipse, and the large axis is occupied at its ends by the entrance door and the choir. Strongly inspired by the Institut de France in Paris, and in the image of the chapel Notre-Dame-Libératrice de Salins-les-Bains, it is named "the church of the good Shepherd" and then by the...