Souveir d'une Visite a l Eglise de Brou a Bourg

From the Gertrude Smith Collection of Postal Views - 40 views. Extremely Rare

Dated: Circa 1920's
Binding: Stiff Paper Covers
Subject: France
Notes & Literature: The Royal Monastery of Brou is a religious complex located at Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain d?partement, central France. Made out of monastic buildings in addition to a church, they were built at the beginning of the 16th century by Margaret of Austria,[1] daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. The complex was designed as a dynastic burial place in the tradition of the Burgundian Champmol and C?teaux Abbey, and the French Saint-Denis. The church is known as the ?glise Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou in French.

Condition Report: Very Good