THE CHARTREUSE D'AURAY

The Carthusian monastery of Auray is not in Auray as one might think, but in Brech. Before the Carthusians invaded the area from 1482 to the Revolution, the Carthusian monastery was first a collegiate church raised by John IV de Montfort at the end of the battle he fought with Charles de Blois on 29 September 1364. In 1791, the Carthusians were expelled, and the monastery, put up for sale, ended up housing the works of Father Deshayes and the daughters of Wisdom. It was in 1814, under the Restoration, that the bones of the emigrants shot in the Martyrs' Field in 1795 were transferred to the Charterhouse. The cloister has been listed as a historic monument since 1928. As for the chapel, the refectory and the chapel erected in memory of the victims of Quiberon, they have been listed as historic monuments since 1943. The Chartreuse was partially rebuilt after a fire in 1968.