Eglise Saint-Hilaire

Located on Place Carnot, in the heart of the city, Rue de la Fausse Porte has the particularity of passing under the choir of the religious building through a beautiful stone vault. You may not be familiar with Victor Hugo's text written in 1838 in which he gently mocks the bell tower of the Saint-Hilaire church: "The brave architect took a square priest's or lawyer's cap. On this square cap, he built an upside-down salad bowl; on the bottom of this salad bowl, which had become a platform, he placed a sugar bowl, on the sugar bowl, a bottle, on the bottle, a sun fitted into the neck by the lower vertical ray; and finally, on the sun, a rooster skewered in the upper vertical ray. Assuming that it took him a day to find each of these ideas, he would have rested on the seventh day. This artist must have been Flemish." The stained-glass windows of the Saint-Hilaire church: The association of friends of Givetois religious heritage has invested in the rehabilitation of the interior of the Saint-Hilaire church in Givet with the project of equipping it with 18 new contemporary-style stained-glass windows. The stained-glass windows were created by the artist-painter Catherine Roch de Hillerin and produced by the Simon Marcq master glassmaker workshop in Reims. 18 stained-glass windows are to be installed, each measuring 5m in height and 2m30 in width. (8 in the choir and 10 in the nave). Already installed in the choir: "The Baptism" (right side) - "The Confirmation" (left side) In the nave: "Mary, mother of humanity" - "The Creation" - "Saint-Hilaire (left side) - "Nativity" - "Cross" Next stained-glass windows: "The Exile", "Liberation" and "Resurrection". Please note: Free access - Rue Saint-Hilaire - Left bank.