65 km | 78 km-effort
You are now driving down the Rue Jacquet, the oldest street in Rochefort’s Old Town which was once encircled by the town walls and two main gates. The high gate was located on the current location of the General Lafayette square.
In the bend in the road, slow down near the houses number 59 to 61 on your right hand side.
This is Rochefort���s first convent, which was built in 1626 on the initiative of Count Löwenstein and his wife Josine de la Marck. A small number of Carmelite nuns lived there, quite peacefully and uneventfully, until the turmoil of the late 18th century French Revolution when the convent was dissolved.
Just opposite, you can admire the Bishop Jacquet’s house (at number 76), the oldest and most beautiful building in Rochefort. Is used be lived in by the Bishop Pierre Louis Jacquet (1683-1763), Bishop of Hippone, vicar general of Liège, archdeacon of Hainaut and canon of Saint Lambert. The keystone above the door bears his coat of arms: two crossed oak twigs. The bishop was extremely wealthy and equally generous; he gave a lot of his personal fortune to the poor and the sick. Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte lived here between 1868 and 1871.
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