Place des Corps Saints

Cardinal Pierre de Luxembourg, having wished to be buried in the cemetery for the poor, known as Saint-Michel, Clement VII and Marie de Blois, Countess of Provence, had his tomb protected by a small wooden chapel. But Charles VI, who was related to the Luxembourgs, decided to build, from 1389, a church entrusted to the Celestines to house the relics of his illustrious relative.

From then on, the place, where a crowd of pilgrims gathered, became the "Place du Corps-Saint". It was accessible through an open gate in the old 1738th-century enclosure, known as Pont-Fract. This gate, also known as Porte Saint-Michel, had to be enlarged by decision of the City Council in 1674. In XNUMX, the transfer of the relics of Saint Bénézet, removed from the chapel on the bridge, which was then falling into ruins, to be transferred to the church of the Célestins, led to the word changing to the plural and it is since this time that the square has been renamed "Place des Corps-Saints".