Quiz – Are you an expert on Saint-Omer?

At the capture of Saint-Omer in 1677, Louis XIV did indeed enter the cathedral enclosure on horseback via the north portal.

Consolidation took place between 1972 and 1984 in order to bring together the (formerly scattered) plots of market gardeners and to create access points accessible to agricultural machinery. An essential operation for the survival of market gardeners, which at the same time marked the end of escutes and bacôves.

The stones were well used in the construction of the town hall and the Place Saint-Jean auditorium. The surplus would have been used to reinforce the Haut-Pont quay. As for the fortifications, they have not undergone any modification since the Vauban era and were dismantled between 1892 and 1894.

Well done ! On July 22, 1947 around 21 p.m., the tower of Saint-Bertin Abbey, listed as a historic monument, disappeared from the landscape of Saint-Omer. It was then very weakened by the dismantling of the abbey during the revolution as well as by the bombings of the Second World War.

He was locked up there and ended his days there without execution. However, excavations carried out in the XNUMXth century did not reveal his tomb.

Yes, it is Godfrey of Saint-Omer! The family coat of arms is displayed under the north portal of the cathedral. Note that this historical fact has been the subject of debate for a long time regarding its veracity.

They were two brothers (John and Daniel) and their cousin Charles, who respectively became 1^er Catholic bishop of the United States, signer of the Constitution and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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Rouget de Lisle, then a soldier in garrison at Saint-Omer at the end of the 1787th century, would have heard an oratio played on the cathedral organ (Esther, composed in XNUMX by Lucien Grisons). He was strongly inspired by it to compose the marseillaise.

Right answer ! 1834 was the date construction began.