Musée de la Reine Bérengère

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Queen Berengère's house and nearby houses is a complex of buildings in the city of Le Mans and the Maine region. Once a museum, after its closure in January 2022, its collections were moved to the Tesse Museum and the Jean-Claude Boulard-Carré Plantagenet museum. The main building dates from the 15th century and remains in a remarkable state of conservation. It is located in the centre of the city of Plantagenet. His name is taken from Berengère de Navarre, wife of Richard Coeur de Lion. She was du Mans customsman, where she founded the Abbay de l'Épau, and lived with her husband in the palace of the Counts of Maine, the present town hall.

Location and constitution: Located on the old Grande Rue which served the entire medieval city in the Middle Ages, whether it be canonical and aristocratic mansions, or alleyways of "low neighborhood", the whole is composed of three wooden houses in the street become rue de la Queen Berengère. The popular belief is that the queen returned the soul to one of these houses, which bound them in their destiny. The house remained completely bourgeois for the time in 1230, and was entirely rebuilt by wealthy merchants...