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The Notre-Dame de Bongarant Chapel is a Catholic building located in the hamlet of Bon Garand, 2.5 km northwest of the village of Sautron, in the Loire-Atlantique. Built in the first quarter of the 15th century, it occupies a space surrounded by a low wall, on the heights of the Cens valley. His name is spelled in various ways: Bongarant, Bongarand, Bon-Garant or Bon-Garand.

According to tradition, the duke Francis II of Brittany, dissonant in a hunt against a boar, would have vowed to build this chapel if he escaped death. Remains discovered in 1863 suggest that an earlier building, of an indeterminate nature, would have preceded the present chapel. The building, from plan to cross, is about 20 meters long and 15 wide, with granite walls and a roof of slate.

Inside, a statue of the Virgin in polychrome stone represents Francis II, his family and the bishop having consecrated the chapel. The building has been listed for historical monuments since September 17, 1969. It belongs to the commune of Sautron and is located in an environment alternating cultivated plots and groves of trees.

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