Chapelle Sainte Marie
Nevers, La France


St Mary's Chapel, or the Chapel of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin, was part of the Visitation Monastery, whose buildings were constructed between 1623 and 1634. The Duchess Louise-Marie de Gonzague, the future Queen of Poland, laid the foundation stone in June 1639. The work was completed in 1649.
It is the only remains of the Convent of the Visitation, a religious order founded in 1610 by Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jeanne de Chantal. The nuns' presence was much criticised. They bought houses to enlarge their holding and depopulated the street. The Abbey of Saint Martin then agreed to give part of its land to the nuns who could then build the chapel 
 1639 ,  the building was completed in 1643.

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