Hidden between two stately residences, Notre-Dame-de-Pitié is practically invisible to passers-by. What a pity! Its history is worthy of Romeo and Juliet. At the end of the 16th century, 18-year-old Guillaume Croix, a fisherman's son, fell in love with Marie de Surtainville, a 16-year-old girl of Honfleur nobility who was promised to a Norman gentleman. Fortunately, the couple's story ends better than that of the famous lovers from Verona. Despite the opposition of Marie's father, the young people married and had many children. Built by Guillaume just after their wedding, this chapel is a symbol of their love. The exterior, initially in white painted cobblestone, is unfortunately no longer of the era: a terrible storm destroyed it in 1902. The descendants of Guillaume and Marie have since rebuilt the chapel around the altar, the only vestige of this romantic past that was spared the anger of the heavens.
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