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| NOTRE-DAME CHURCH : This church was built and modified so many times, that we ignore the right date of its construction (1612 is written on the chancel ). It contains a remarkable board, a crucifixion, dated in 1620. The author could be RUBENS or VAN DICK one of the more talented pupil of the flemish master. |
| SAINT-HILAIRE CHURCH :
Demolished in 1675, by the field marshal of Créquy, this church has been rebuilt in 1682 by VAUBAN. Its high and thick walls, its underground galleries formed a secure shelter during possibles assaults.
The "Fausse Porte" ("False Door") street has the particularity of passing under the chorus of the religious edifice by a beautiful stone arch. The Saint-Hilaire church is covered by an add church tower described by Victor Hugo with this words : " The good architect took a priest's or a barrister's square brimless cap, on it he has piled up a reversed salad bowl; on the bottom of this salad bowl which had become platform, he put a sugar bowl, on this sugar bowl, a bottle, a sun introduced in the neck by the vertical inferior sunbeam, and finally on the sun, a cock skewered in the upper vertical sunbeam. Supposing he has taken one day to find each of this ideas, he took on a rest on the seventh day" . |
Inspired by Jean de la Fontaine fable "The frog and the ox", here is
(in real patois of GIVET) the moral "adapted" by the nominated SOHET, who was, there's a long time, director of the military hospital of GIVET.
Dear friends english-speaker will you excuse us, but the traduction of this texte isn't possible in Shakespeare's language.
