SAINT MICHAEL'S CHURCH

Listed as a Historic Monument since 1952, this church has a panelled nave and choir with a fresco on wood of nearly 300 ^m2 executed by Pierre Honoré Chadaigne around 1859, relayed by the painter Dubois de Chartres in 1861. The ceiling is remarkably decorated with paintings illustrating months, days and saints. One can admire a plaster statue of the Virgin, made by the sculptor Hélène Bertaux (1825-1909), wife of Léon Bertaux, also a statuary, who ended her life in Saint-Michel-de-Chavaignes, where she owned the Château de Lassay. This feminist activist allowed women artists to enter the National School of Fine Arts in Paris from 1897, and then to compete for the Prix de Rome in 1903. The village hall in the village bears her name. Throughout the village, one can discover sculptures created during the annual Mains d'Art event (end of June, beginning of July).