Meet in front of the Saint-Ayoul church, built in the name of Aigulphe de Bourges, former bishop of Bourges buried in secret around 675 and whose relics hidden by the monks fleeing the Normans were discovered around the year 1000. The square, large and clear, is open to the sky of Île-de-France, in silence increased by the post-containment. It is the lower town of Provins where the tourists of the Gothic circuits go in a second time, after having seen the upper town and its 12th century Caesar tower, the only octagonal keep with square base known. On the royal door of Saint-Ayoul, stands for thirty years, in black on white, the pleading and deeply human world of Georges Jeanclos, sculptor of clays and ashes (1933-1997), who yielded to bronze for this time of eternity.
In 1985, the State ordered an artist to restore this deserted portal of a church battered by history. Ravaged by a fire, rebuilt in the 12th and 13th centuries, mistreated by the Wars of Religion,
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