THE ARCHAIC REDOUBARD CROSSES OF THE HAUT-MAINE

The municipality houses four crooked crosses, which are made in ball sandstone, local detritic sedimentary rock. The most remarkable is the cross of the Pâtis de Noëlles. Difficult to date, this archaic cross in blue ball could be one of the oldest crosses in Upper Maine.

The other three relate to a small flower cross between Sougé-le-Ganelon and Douillet-le-Joly, at the place Corbusin, south of the D 173, the cross of the Martinière marked with the footprint of a Saint-Jacques shell and a round, relationship to the backgammon path, and finally, the Fouard cross, a former crossborder cross with a pilgrim and a chalice. These crosses quadrillize in Upper Maine a territory of ancient Christianization, cross of pilgrims, jacquards or montoises, of crossroads, skirts and commemorations.