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Aître St-Maclou

Address: 186 rue Martainville, St-Maclou, Rouen, 76000 | Map It

Category: Architectural Sites, Educational Institutions
Location: Rouen

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A former ossuary (a charnel house used for the bodies of plague victims), the Aître St-Maclou is a reminder of the plague that devastated Europe during the Middle Ages; these days it holds Rouen's Fine Art Academy. French composer Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) is said to have been inspired by the ossuary when he was working on his Danse Macabre. The half-timber courtyard, where you can wander at leisure and maybe visit a picture exhibition, contains graphic carvings of skulls, bones, and grave diggers' tools.

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