Chapelle royale Saint-Frambourg

Open only during concerts and exhibitions and on certain weekends.

Around 993, Queen Adélaïde founded this edifice to thank God for the election of her husband Hugues Capet, and to house the relics of a 6th-century hermit from Auvergne: Saint Frambault. To mark the Capetian millennium, the chapel was fitted with stained-glass windows designed by the painter MirÒ and produced by the master glassmaker Charles Marcq of Reims. In 1973, on the advice of André Malraux, Hungarian pianist Georges Cziffra bought the chapel, which had been converted into a garage, even though it was already listed as a historic monument! After a major excavation campaign, restoration work began under the direction of the Monuments Historiques architect. The Cziffra Foundation was then created, with the aim of restoring the entire edifice, opening it to a wider public, and welcoming and promoting young musicians and artists, a work that his wife Soleilka continued with the same passion.

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