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Origin and history

The Séminaire de Meaux originated in a Hôtel-Dieu founded in 1356 by Jean Rose, a wealthy merchant of Meaux, under the name of Passion. This facility, intended to accommodate 25 blind, 12 poor passers-by and 10 children, was located at the place called the Donjon. Today, it remains that the chapel, whose choir was rebuilt from 1515 in Gothic style flamboyant on the initiative of Rémy du Bocquet, then administrator of the hospital. The sculpted decorations (crows, vault keys) and the bays of this eastern part testify to this artistic period.

The four western spans of the chapel were added in 1636, under the episcopate of Jean de Belleau, whose arms adorn a key to the vault. Two other keys bear the figures of the administrators of the time, Antoine de Marleu and Antoine Guillemain. This project is part of the 2nd quarter of the 17th century, marking a transition to a more classical style (engaged pilasters). The building on street dates back to the 17th and 18th centuries, reflecting the architectural evolution and the adaptation of the whole to hospital and seminal needs.

The chapel, classified as Historic Monument in 1913, and the facades/roofs of the building on street, inscribed in 1943, illustrate this historical stratification. The site, originally dedicated to charity, later became a seminar, although the sources do not specify the exact date of this transformation. The funeral slab of Jean Rose, preserved in the Cathedral of Meaux, recalls the medieval origin of this historic place.

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