Nantes
On the border of the Loire-Atlantique and Anjou rivers, the small chapel of Saint-Barthélemy du Dougilard went unnoticed for a long time. However, the building built around 1140 contains a priceless treasure, hidden behind a more recent plaster wall: a mural of Christ dating from the fifteenth century, "unique in France" according to specialists, a fragment of a vast fresco. "We hadn't considered all this at all, it's a story that is hardly believable," says Annabelle Le Rest, who bought the place for 30,000 euros on Leboincoin in 2021 with a friend, Karen Chauve.
The two forty-year-olds were originally looking for a building of some kind, near a pond, to organize various festive events (shows, exhibitions, garage sales, etc.) with an association. But they "fell in love on the first visit" to the abandoned chapel in Sudan (Loire-Atlantique). Owned by farmers, it was for a long time a place of pilgrimages and then of family events.
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