Agnès Sorel's recumbent effigiy

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The lier of Agnes Sorel, located in Loches, is a 15th century funeral monument intended to collect the remains of Agnes Sorel, the mistress of King Charles VII. The monument suffered many tribulations, especially during the French Revolution. According to the use of the 15th century, as she died near Jumièges, her body was divided between this abbey which collected her heart and the collegiate Notre-Dame (accurate designation of the church of Saint-Ours at that time) in Loches.

It was by virtue of the will of the deceased, who bequeathed much of her possessions to the monks of the collegiate Notre-Dame, that they received the embalmed body of Agnes, admirably dressed, and dressed with simplicity and without jewels. An artist was commissioned by Charles VII, very sorry, to sculpt a monument of great elegance. We do not know who this artist was; historians hesitate between Michel Colombe, to whom we owe the children of the Cathedral of Tours carved for Anne of Brittany, and Jacques Morel, another sculptor of the time.

Perhaps it is the work of an unknown artist. The tomb strangely recalls the monuments designed by Jean Fouquet.