Saint-Clodoald

The town takes its name from Clodoald, who died here in 560. A church begun for Marie-Antoinette in 1788 was halted in 1791 and finished on a smaller plan in 1820. The present neo-medieval church was built by the architect Jean-François Delarue between April 1861 and May 1863, largely at Napoleon III’s expense; capitals at the entrance to the choir show Marie-Antoinette and the emperor as donors. It was listed as a historic monument in 1995. The photograph shows the memorial to the parish’s dead of the First World War: a gilded Pietà beneath a cross, with words from the Gospel of John and the Lamentations.