Rennes Cathedral

Behind its 18th-century façade in the Gesu style, this church of recollection displays numerous devotional ex-voto's, in particular one dating from the fire of 1720, and remarkable furniture such as canopies, pulpit, baptismal font and organs from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The church left by the Augustinians reflects both their pastoral ambition and the poverty of their means. At 52 m long and 26 m wide, it is one of the great churches of the Ancien Régime in Rennes, more spacious for example than the church of the Jesuits or that of Saint-Sauveur.

Building built in the 19th century from 1884 to 1904; emblematic building from the religious, architectural and urban planning point of view. This monumental project, whose design and construction took nearly 40 years to complete, inevitably evokes its implicit reference to cathedrals. The choice of the "Gothic" style, introduced in Rennes by Jacques Mellet for the construction of the Missionaries' chapel (destroyed), as early as 1841, is here an eclectic approach, to which Abbot Millon subscribes, in the Semaine Religieuse, and which he qualifies as the "ogival style", considering "that it is preferable to choose with a wise and prudent eclecticism, the beauties of several styles of the same period, rather than slavishly copying a known work.