SAINT-LOTHAIN CHURCH

Built on a crypt, in the xie and xiie centuries, this church contains the sarcophagus of Saint Lothain, a dead hermit here at the beginning of the century. The village of Silèze became Saint-Lothain. The church was the subject of major transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: comtan tower, warlock arch… It houses many statues of the sixteenth century and algae sets. Careers in this "marble" were indeed exploited from the Middle Ages in Saint-Lothain. But it was especially in the fifteenth century, at the time of the «ymagiers», sculptors serving the duke of Burgundy that this material was renamed and used for the Burgundian statue. Many of the statues and deposits in the effigy of the members of the ducs' entourage and the famous sculptures of the church of Brou in Bourg-en-Bresse were made in the altartre of Saint-Lothain. The cemetery, next to the church, houses the tomb of Charles Sauria, the inventor of the friction phosphates.