In the Church of Bar-le-Duc monument, which is surprising and even shocking is not versed in the history Fratsii visitors – in one of the niches of the temple is installed semi-decomposed corpse … clutching in his hand solemnly stretched up his heart.
Statue dedicated to René de Chalon, Prince of Orange, who lived in the XVI-th century. According to legend, the young man felt that dies when he is not even 30 and bequeathed to portray on the tombstone, as it will look like in three years after his death. Premonition has not let the young man – one of the campaigns 25-year-old prince received fatal gunshot wound and died some time later, after which the sculptor Ligier Richer had only to do the will of the deceased. His stunningly accurate in terms of anatomy work for more than 400 years, the church makes visitors feel somehow uncomfortable – in fact, more like a sculpture would fit the anatomical museum, or hospital, but not the temple of God.
