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The Carmelite convent of Châtillon-sur-Seine, founded in 1622 in the Saint-Nicolas district, extends through successive acquisitions between 1625 and 1661. Its church, built between 1708 and 1718, is distinguished by a dome inspired by Val-de-Grâce. The convent remained active until the Revolution, which expelled the nuns in 1792.

After the Revolution, the buildings were reassigned: the town hall was there from 1795 to 1820. The former vaulted cloisters and halls were sold and converted into dwellings, while the church, not sold, became a court in 1821. The transformations led to the destruction of the dome and the bell tower, completed in 1842.

The site, partially preserved with two cloister galleries and vaulted spaces, was listed in the Inventory of Historic Monuments on 13 June 1996. Today, disused, it bears witness to the religious architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries and its secular reconversion in the 19th century.

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